Digital technique to analyze the wear of screw-retained implant supported metal-ceramic dental prostheses and natural tooth as antagonist: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT: The aim of this study was to describe a novel digital technique to analyze the wear of screw-retained implant-supported metal-ceramic dental prostheses and natural tooth as antagonist.Materials and methods Ten patients were consecutively included to rehabilitate partial edentulism by dental implants. Both the screw-retained implant-supported metal-ceramic dental prostheses and the natural tooth as antagonist were submitted to a digital impression through an intraoral scan to generate a Standard Tessellation Language digital file preoperatively (STL1), at 3 months (STL2), and 6 months (STL3) follow-up. Afterwards, an alignment procedure of the digital files (STL1-STL3) was performed on a reverse engineering morphometric software (3D Geomagic Capture Wrap) and volume changes at the screw-ret

SUBMITTER: Rodriguez Torres P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10837987 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature