Figure 8
Histomorphological evaluation. One sample of each group is shown exemplarily (A–E; scale bar = 500 µm; F-M magnifications of A–E), with the textured ZTA ceramic surface in black, while surrounding trabecular bone was stained in pink (Giemsa). Direct bone-implant contact exemplarily marked with a white triangle in the sample of the NC group (A). Fatty bone marrow fills the areas between the trabeculae (Bm = Bone marrow). Old host bone is stained in lighter pink (oB = old Bone), while newly formed bone is stained darker (nB = new Bone). The connective tissue surrounding the SGBG group implants was filled with a layer of blue stained cells consisting of lymphocytes, plasma cells, and macrophages as a foreign body reaction to the coated implant (E; stars; J, L, M as magnifications).
