TAGRA 2025

This study aims to analyze the effect of the lateral movement mechanism occurring during the chewing movement on the pure titanium material-based implant body using the Finite Element Analysis (FEA) method. In this study, a pure titanium-based dental implant material designed to international standards was subjected to 0.5 mm lateral movement mechanisms under a 70 N bite force. The force distribution generated within the implant body was analyzed using the FEA method. The obtained data showed that the load distribution generated by the lateral movement mechanism of the implant body and the bite force was distributed in the direction of movement. Additionally, it was observed that some residual loads occurred in the implant body upon completion of the chewing period. This suggests that residual stresses may be generated in the implant structure and may lead to various damage mechanisms depending on the parameters of the chewing movement. The ability of researchers to observe these data, which can be obtained over long periods of time in living tissue studies, through in vitro and FEA-method analysis, will make a great contribution to material development. In future studies, modeling the lateral wear movement mechanism in vitro with the FEA method and analyzing it on different materials will greatly contribute to the understanding of this mechanism.