Overdenture attachment selection and the loading of implant and denture-bearing area. Part 1: In vivo verification of stereolithographic model.

Preliminary to a study investigating the force transfer from osseointegrated dental implants to the surrounding bone via various types of overdenture attachment, a stereolithographic model (SL-model) was constructed and compared to an in vivo situation in order to confirm the validity of the modeling technique for the planned measurements of implant strain and denture-bearing area loading. The SL-model was generated using the patient's computer tomographic data and duplicated in a material of known elastic properties. The model was fitted with sensors to measure strains in the peri-implant bone and loading forces within the posterior mandibular bone, i.e. the denture-bearing area of the mandible. Special telescopic copings were constructed to measure implant strain in this model as well as in vivo. Using these copings under identical overdenture loading conditions, the strains measured at the implants in vivo and in vitro were the same and never exceeded a tolerance of two standard deviations or a mean difference of -8.5% of the in vitro value. This indicates that the model was reliable for the measurement of implant strain. Denture-bearing area loading within the alveolar ridge cannot be measured in vivo. Instead, a method of extrapolating in vivo denture-bearing area loading figures from implant strain readings was developed and tested (better than 90% accuracy). These in vivo extrapolated figures were then compared to in vitro readings under otherwise identical loading conditions. The result indicated that the SL-model is reliable for measurements of denture-bearing area loading with an error of 10 to 20%.

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