Sakamoto, Eijiro
Kido, Rie
Tomotake, Yoritoki
Naitou, Yoshihito
Ishida, Yuichi
Kido, Jun-ichi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3949-5931
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (15K15767)
Article History
Received: 22 December 2017
Accepted: 25 May 2018
First Online: 13 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present study was approved by the Ethics Committees of Tokushima University Hospital (nos. 2368 and 2719) in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 2013. Participants with peri-implants gave their written informed consent after receiving an explanation of this clinical study.
: Authors Eijiro Sakamoto, Rie Kido, Yoritoki Tomotake, Yoshihito Naitou, Yuichi Ishida and Jun-ichi Kido declare that they have no competing interests.
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