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Design and fabrication of custom-made dental implants

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Dental implant has been attracting more and more attention due to their advantages of reliability and comfort. It is estimated that 10% of people will need dental implants in their life time. Especially, companies offer a system for customer to choice. But, no one research on custom-made dental implants. Traditional implants have their limitation and they are not better fit due to the difference of patient’s oral condition. The advantages of custom implant are accuracy fit and esthetic emergence profile. So, custom-made implant is desirable. Another key problem of custom-made dental implant is manufacturing. Dental implant is difficult to machine due to its complex features and its material (titanium). With the ever increasing demand for tight tolerance and increased complexity and accuracy, traditional machine tools have become ineffective for machining them. So, we design and built a PC-based CNC Turn-Mill-Hob professional machining center for machining our custom-made dental implants accurately and efficiently. This paper introduces our method: firstly, the custom-made dental implant in various oral conditions is designed by using our implant database. And then, FEA results indicate the stress distribution and magnitude of implant-bone interface for dentist referring. Finally, samples are automatic machined by our machining center.

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  1. Institute of Precision Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Xianshuai Chen & R. Du

  2. Center of Precision Engineering, Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou & Chinese Academy of Science (GIAT), Guangzhou, China

    Xianshuai Chen & R. Du

  3. School of Mechanical & Automotive Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China

    Longhan Xie

  4. Guanghua School of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

    Jianyu Chen & Feilong Deng

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Xianshuai Chen, Ph.D, is with Institute of Precision Engineering, Dept. of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. And now, he is deputy director in Center of Precision Engineering, Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangzhou & Chinese Academy of Science (GIAT). In undergraduate, he was Chairman of Student Union in Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai Campus). He published 8 article papers and got 6 times national student academic competition awards. His research interests are Precision Engineering and Biomedical devices design.

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Chen, X., Xie, L., Chen, J. et al. Design and fabrication of custom-made dental implants. J Mech Sci Technol 26, 1993–1998 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-012-0501-9

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