The results of the study demonstrate that the addition of calcium sulphate as a bone graft during the conventional surgical treatment of through and through lesions improves the clinical outcome. Histological analysis is desirable to investigate the quality of tissues formed using the two surgical procedures.

The results of this study indicate that calcium sulfate appears to be an effective material for sinus augmentation, yielding vital bone suitable for implant integration. In addition, the technique used in the test group seemed to improve the quality and quantity of bone formation.

Our data support the hypothesis that the adjunct of an HA/β-TCP composite implant with EMD may improve the clinical and radiographic outcomes of the surgical treatment of unfavorable intrabony defects.

Abstract-In this paper, we study the performance of space modulation for Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output (MIMO) wireless systems with imperfect channel knowledge at the receiver. We focus our attention on two transmission technologies, which are the building blocks of space modulation: i) Space Shift Keying (SSK) modulation; and ii) Time-Orthogonal-Signal-Design (TOSD-) SSK modulation, which is an improved version of SSK modulation providing transmit-diversity. We develop a singleintegral closed-form analytical framework to compute the Average Bit Error Probability (ABEP) of a mismatched detector for both SSK and TOSD-SSK modulations. The framework exploits the theory of quadratic-forms in conditional complex Gaussian Random Variables (RVs) along with the Gil-Pelaez inversion theorem. The analytical model is very general and can be used for arbitrary transmit-and receive-antennas, fading distributions, fading spatial correlations, and training pilots. The analytical derivation is substantiated through Monte Carlo simulations, and it is shown, over independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) Rayleigh fading channels, that SSK modulation is as robust as single-antenna systems to imperfect channel knowledge, and that TOSD-SSK modulation is more robust to channel estimation errors than the Alamouti scheme. Furthermore, it is pointed out that only few training pilots are needed to get reliable enough channel estimates for data detection, and that transmitand receive-diversity of SSK and TOSD-SSK modulations are preserved even with imperfect channel knowledge.Index Terms-Imperfect channel knowledge, "massive" multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, mismatched receiver, performance analysis, single-RF MIMO design, space shift keying (SSK) modulation, spatial modulation (SM), transmit-diversity.