Troedhan, Angelo
Schlichting, Izabela
Kurrek, Andreas
Wainwright, Marcel
Article History
Received: 20 May 2014
Accepted: 1 July 2014
First Online: 30 July 2014
Competing interests
: The presented study was conducted without any exterior funding as part of routine patient treatment by all authors. Surgery-documentation were not specially altered for the presented study compared to routine patient treatment in the authors' clinics.DrDr Troedhan A, Dr Schlichting I, Dr Kurrek A and Dr Wainwright M declare no conflicts of interests by monetary funding or compensation of their research by Satelec-ACTEON (Piezo-devices), TRINON-Karlsruhe-GmbH (Implant-system), Geistlich (BioOss), ArtOss (NanoBone), SUNSTAR-Degradable (easy-graft), personal funding or dependencies by and from the above mentioned companies or any kind of benefitial remuneration in cash, stocks or stock options or equities.All devices used in this study were regularly purchased from national dental suppliers and are owned by the authors, as well as the used dental-implants and biomaterials as the same implants and biomaterials among other brands are used in the clinical routine of the authors' clinics in all indications for bone-augmentation and implant insertion since 2001 (DrDr Troedhan A, Dr Kurrek A) and 2004 for Dr Schlichting I and Dr Wainwright M.DrDr Troedhan A, Dr Kurrek A and Dr Wainwright M - forming the independent “TKW-Research-Group” - hold a non-remunerated co-inventorship on the patent filed for the ultrasonic surgical tool-tips for the Intralift-sinuslift and are supported by Satelec-ACTEON in prototyping and manufacturing new Piezotome-applicator-tips designed by these three authors since Satelec-ACTEON discloses revelation of exact specifications on metal/resin-alloys and oscillation-induction for their ultrasonic surgical devices. In case of invitations of DrDr Troedhan A, Dr Schlichting I, Dr Kurrek A and Dr Wainwright M by Universities, educational institutions or organizers of hands-on workshops for qualified dentists' training in cooperation with one of the above mentioned companies, travel-expenses, accommodation and daily diets, regulated by Austrian and German law, are remunerated.Dr Kurrek A was a non-remunerated chief-medical advisor in the development of the Q-implant-system from 1997–1999 and Dr Kurrek A and Dr Troedhan A lead international implantology-courses as visiting Professors at the Health Science University Vientiane/Laos, Faculty of Dentistry in cooperation with TRINON GmbH.