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Investigation of the Mechanical Strength of Artificial Metallic Mandibles with Lattice Structure for Mandibular
Shinsuke Kawamata1, Tadashi Kawai1, Erika Yasuge1
1Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, School of Dentistry, Iwate Medical University, 19-1, Uchimaru, Morioka 020-8505, Iwate, Japan.
Abstract:
Mandibular reconstructive surgery is necessary for large bone defects. Although various reconstruction methods have been performed clinically, there is no mandibular reconstruction method that meets both sufficient strength criteria and the patient's specific morphology. In this study, the material strength of the cylindrical lattice structures formed by electron-beam melting additive manufacturing using titanium alloy powder was investigated for mandibular reconstruction. The virtual strengths of 28 lattice structures were compared using numerical material tests with finite element method software. Subsequently, to compare the material properties of the selected structures from the preliminary tests, compression test, static bending test and fatigue test were conducted. The results showed that there were correlations with relative density and significant differences among the various structures when comparing internal stress with deformation, although there was a possibility of localized stress concentration and non-uniform stress distribution based on the lattice structure characteristics. These results suggest that the lattice structure of body diagonals with nodes and a cell size of 3.0 mm is a potential candidate for metallic artificial mandibles in mandibular reconstruction surgery.
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