Fracture Resistance of a Bone-Level Two-Piece Zirconia Oral Implant System-The Influence of Artificial Loading and Hydrothermal Aging

Overview

Journal J Funct Biomater

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2024 May 24

PMID 38786633

Authors

Ralf J Kohal

Ellen Riesterer

Kirstin Vach

Sebastian B M Patzelt

Aljaz Ivekovic

Lara Einfalt

Andraz Kocjan

Anna-Lena Hillebrecht

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Abstract

Preclinical and clinical research on two-piece zirconia implants are warranted. Therefore, we evaluated the in vitro fracture resistance of such a zirconia oral implant system. The present study comprised 32 two-piece zirconia implants and abutments attached to the implants using a titanium ( = 16) or a zirconia abutment screw ( = 16). Both groups were subdivided ( = 8): group T-0 comprised implants with a titanium abutment screw and no artificial loading; group T-HL was the titanium screw group exposed to hydro-thermomechanical loading in a chewing simulator; group Z-0 was the zirconia abutment screw group with no artificial loading; and group Z-HL comprised the zirconia screw group with hydro-thermomechanical loading. Groups T-HL and Z-HL were loaded with 98 N and aged in 85 °C hot water for 10 chewing cycles. All samples were loaded to fracture. Kruskal-Wallis tests were executed to assess the loading/bending moment group differences. The significance level was established at a probability of 0.05. During the artificial loading, there was a single occurrence of an implant fracture. The mean fracture resistances measured in a universal testing machine were 749 N for group T-0, 828 N for group Z-0, 652 N for group T-HL, and 826 N for group Z-HL. The corresponding bending moments were as follows: group T-0, 411 Ncm; group Z-0, 452 Ncm; group T-HL, 356 Ncm; and group Z-HL, 456 Ncm. There were no statistically significant differences found between the experimental groups. Therefore, the conclusion was that loading and aging did not diminish the fracture resistance of the evaluated implant system.

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