“…Animal models provide relevant information about a variety of disorders in dentistry. The rat model has been widely used for studies in dentistry, including those which involve periodontal diseases, alveolar bone healing, tooth movement, osteogenesis, osseointegration, use of biomaterials, and altered occlusal loadings, for example (Okamoto and de Russo, 1973;Shimomoto et al, 2007;Walker et al, 2008;Wan et al, 2012;Xu et al, 2016;Zeng et al, 2016;Koutouzis et al, 2017;Lee et al, 2017;Hassumi et al, 2018;Palin et al, 2018;Uslu et al, 2018;Wang et al, 2018). Besides that, tooth extraction, inclosing incisor extraction, has been considered as a classical model of preclinical studies and has been applied in many studies with different aims in the last years (Avivi-Arber et al, 2010;Shoji et al, 2010;Boonyagul et al, 2014;Curra et al, 2016;Hassumi et al, 2018;de Oliveira Puttini et al, 2019).…”