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Volume 20 , Issue 3
May/June 2005
Page 461

Sterility of Packaged Implant Components

Philip Worthington, MD, DDS, BSc

PMID: 15973959

Several implant components in their original glass vial and peel-back packages were subjected to sterility testing to determine whether the contents remained sterile after the expiration date marked on the package had passed. The results from a university microbiology laboratory showed that the contents remained sterile for 6 to 11 years after the expiration dates. Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants 2005;20:461

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