STUDY - Technical details

Each model is made of 4 components:

- trabecolous bone (E=300 MPa)
-cortical bone (E=11000 MPa)
-implants (E=100000 MPa)

Totally, 15000 tetrahedral elements with 10 nodes resulted in the case of traditional implants, 48000 tetrahedral elements with 10 nodes in the case of bracket and screw implants. In both cases a condition of perfect osteo-integration was simulated and two different conditions of load too:
-pure vertical load equal to 200 N;
- vertical load equal to 200 N + horizontal load equal to 40 N


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