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Article History

Received: 21 July 2017

Accepted: 10 October 2018

First Online: 1 November 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (Seoul revision 2008), ISO 14155, all local legal and regulatory requirements, and the study protocol, and it was approved by the independent ethics committees of the coordinating investigator and all study sites, namely Freiburg Ethics Commission International (ref: 011/1616), Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg (ref: F-2O11–060-z) and the Ethics Committee of the Hannover Medical School (ref: 6015). All participating patients gave their written informed consent.

: Not applicable.

: All authors except DW are involved in training and education activities for Institut Straumann AG, Basel, Switzerland. The authors declare that they have no further competing interests. Institut Straumann AG manufactures the implants. Therefore, Institut Straumann AG gains financially, if the PURE Ceramic Implants would be more widely used.

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