Stress Reduction in Bone/Dental Implant Interface Using Elastomeric Stress Absorbers

This paper focused on optimal stress distribution in the mandibular bone surrounding a dental implant and devoted to the development of a modified Osteoplant implant type in order to minimize stress concentration in the bone/implant interface. This study investigated two elastomeric stress barriers incorporated into the dental implant using 3-D finite element analysis. Overall, this proposed implant provoked lower bone/implant interface stresses due to the effect of the elastomers as stress absorbers.Key Words: Dental implant, stress absorber, elastomer, finite element method