Could the median-palate accommodate wide-bodied implants in order to support maxillary over-dentures?
The results indicate that the anterior median-palate is structurally better than their respective maxillary premolar region in elderly edentulous persons, and an implant can be placed to anchor an overdenture. The best site for a wide-body implant was established to be 6-8 mm posterior to the incisive foramen in elderly edentulous patients.
Our data support a role for BLR in ordering the shoot apex and, in conjunction with BP and REV, playing a part in determining the composition and organisation of the vascular system. Microarray analysis strongly indicates that the striking vascular phenotypes of blr bp rev triple mutants and plants over-expressing BLR result from the misregulation of a suite of genes, targets of BLR in wild type plants, that determine cell size and structure in the developing vasculature.