The effect of periapical bone defects on stress distribution in teeth with periapical periodontitis: a finite element analysis
ShuoMin Chen, ZhangYan Ye, XinHua Hong, Liang Chen, LinMei Wu, Yilin Wang, YuGe Chen, MengHan Wu, Jun Wang, QinHui Zhang, YuTian Wu, XiaoYu Sun, Xi Ding, ShengBin Huang, ShuFan Zhao · 2023
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ShuoMin Chen and co-authors published this study in 2023. It uses computer models to ask how bone loss around a tooth root changes the forces inside the tooth. The bone loss comes from apical periodontitis, an infection at the root tip that eats away the supporting bone.
The team built digital copies of a lower premolar, with round bone defects of four sizes at the root tip. They then loaded each tooth with a chewing force set at an angle. As the defect grew, the tooth shifted more under the same load. Stress rose near the crown's neck and fell near the root tip. Overall peak stress changed little. The findings help dentists judge how much a weakened tooth can still bear.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | ShuoMin Chen, ZhangYan Ye, XinHua Hong, Liang Chen, LinMei Wu, Yilin Wang, YuGe Chen, MengHan Wu, Jun Wang, QinHui Zhang, YuTian Wu, XiaoYu Sun, Xi Ding, ShengBin Huang, ShuFan Zhao |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 27 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |