UNIFORM DESIGN AND DYNAMIC FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS FOR MICROMOTION IMPROVEMENT OF SEMADOS DENTAL IMPLANT SYSTEM UNDER DYNAMIC CHEWING LOADS

This study aimed to improve the micromotion of a Semados dental implant system subjected to dynamic chewing loads. Micromotion of the Semados dental implant system with basic dimensions was obtained using dynamic finite element analysis, and five parameters of the implant were selected as the control factors to be improved. A uniform design method was employed to construct a set of experimental simulations. Next, for each experimental simulation, the dynamic finite analysis package ANSYS/LS-DYNA was employed to simulate the behavior of the Semados dental implant model subjected to dynamic chewing loads and then determine the maximum micromotion of the cortical and cancellous bones. Finally, the best design of the experimental simulations that caused the smallest amount of micromotion was selected as the improved design version. Compared to the original design, which experienced micromotion of 74.53 μm, the improved version experienced micromotion of 45.41 μm. The rate of improvement was 39.1%.