Open AccessMacro design effects on stress distribution around implants: A photoelastic stress analysis
Author(s) -
Serhat Emre Özkır,
Hakan Terzioğlu
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/0970-9290.107346
Subject(s) - implant , materials science , stress (linguistics) , tapering , orthodontics , dentistry , medicine , surgery , computer science , linguistics , philosophy , computer graphics (images)
Biomechanics is one of the main factors for achieving long-term success of implant supported prostheses. Long-term failures mostly depend on biomechanical complications. It is important to distinguish the effects of macro design of the implants.