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SAUDI JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages 787-796Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.sjbs.2016.05.001
Keywords
Ti-6Al-4V; Electron beam melting; Additive manufacturing technology; Dental implant
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- Vice Deanship of Research Chairs, King Saud University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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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 (TM) and Magics (TM), the designed implant was directly manufactured by layering technique using ARCAM A2 (TM) 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. (C) 2016 The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University.
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