BIOMECHANICAL INVESTIGATION OF TITANIUM AND ZIRCONIA DENTAL IMPLANTS

Integrated Biomechanical, Electronic and Topographic Characterization of Titanium Dental Implants

Characterisation of Titanium Dental Implants. II: Local Biomechanical Model

A theoretical model for estimation of the bone-to-implant interfacial shear strength induced by implant surface roughness has been developed. Two different assumptions regarding the constitutive behaviour of the interfacial bone were made. 1) The bone exhibits an ideally plastic deformation – the plastic mode. 2) The bone exhibits a linearly elastic deformation – the elastic mode. In the plasti...

Zirconia Vs Titanium Implants – Deciding Factors

This study focuses on titanium implants in a conventional manner and the newly introduced and highly popular Zirconia implants. Some of the major areas covered here are clinical considerations and material science which includes implant materials as well as the impacts of its physical properties on outcomes of the treatment. Titanium is the gold standard for dental implants fabrication in spite...

Biomechanical and Clinical Attributes of Zirconia Dental Implants — Two Case Reports

IntroductIon The last three decades have seen an increase in the use of dental implants to replace missing teeth. The use of Titanium root form implants in the rehabilitation of the partially or completely edentulous patient has been rooted in the work of Dr. Branemark in the late 1970s and is based on the fact that titanium implants “osseointegrate” with native bone and the material has the ph...

Recent Progress toward Surface Modification of Bone/Dental Implants with Titanium and Zirconia Dioxide Nanotubes

1 Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, 49931 2 Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607 3 Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607 4 Department of Restorative Dentistry, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60612 5...