Figure 2.

The trephine was used in an eccentric mode so that a smaller biopsy was obtained, but still providing enough tissue to be analyzed. The figure represents an example of histological measurements. The linear assessments were performed between the most coronal bone contact (CBC) to the implant surface to the half of the length of the implant (IM, intermediate point) and from IM and the most apical bone contact (ABC; white arrows). The morphometric measurements were also performed both in the coronal (white dotted lines) and apical (yellow dotted lines) regions. Acid fuchsine and toluidine blue stain.