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TY - JOUR
T1 - Preliminary fabrication and characterization of electron beam melted Ti-6Al-4V customized dental implant
AU - Ramakrishnaiah, Ravikumar
AU - Al Kheraif, Abdulaziz Abdullah
AU - Mohammad, Ashfaq
AU - Divakar, Darshan Devang
AU - Kotha, Sunil Babu
AU - Celur, Sree Lalita
AU - Hashem, Mohamed I.
AU - Vallittu, Pekka K.
AU - Rehman, Ihtesham Ur
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - The current study was aimed to fabricate customized root form dental implant using additive manufacturing technique for the replacement of missing teeth. The root form dental implant was designed using Geomagic™ and Magics™, the designed implant was directly manufactured by layering technique using ARCAM A2™ electron beam melting system by employing medical grade Ti–6Al–4V alloy powder. Furthermore, the fabricated implant was characterized in terms of certain clinically important parameters such as surface microstructure, surface topography, chemical purity and internal porosity. Results confirmed that, fabrication of customized dental implants using additive rapid manufacturing technology offers an attractive method to produce extremely pure form of customized titanium dental implants, the rough and porous surface texture obtained is expected to provide better initial implant stabilization and superior osseointegration.
AB - The current study was aimed to fabricate customized root form dental implant using additive manufacturing technique for the replacement of missing teeth. The root form dental implant was designed using Geomagic™ and Magics™, the designed implant was directly manufactured by layering technique using ARCAM A2™ electron beam melting system by employing medical grade Ti–6Al–4V alloy powder. Furthermore, the fabricated implant was characterized in terms of certain clinically important parameters such as surface microstructure, surface topography, chemical purity and internal porosity. Results confirmed that, fabrication of customized dental implants using additive rapid manufacturing technology offers an attractive method to produce extremely pure form of customized titanium dental implants, the rough and porous surface texture obtained is expected to provide better initial implant stabilization and superior osseointegration.
KW - Ti-6Al-4V
KW - Electron beam melting
KW - Additive manufacturing technology
KW - Dental implant
U2 - 10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.05.001
DO - 10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.05.001
M3 - Journal article
VL - 24
SP - 787
EP - 796
JO - SAUDI JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
JF - SAUDI JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
SN - 1319-562X
IS - 4
ER -