Modeling and validating the mechanical behavior of dental implants components

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Milident Dental Laboratory Inc., based in Gatineau, Quebec, is a leading provider of high-quality dental products and services to dental professionals for over 20 years. They are consistently facing with local and international competition that forced them to offer competitive pricing. Over the years, this has become a challenge since most laboratory components are imported to Canada at a very high cost. Thus, to be a striving company, Milident Inc. has decided to manufacture and supply their own dental components. In July 2014, Milident Inc. has purchased an advanced lathe machine that has the capability to micro-machine high precision implant components. Milident, in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, are presently working on optimizing the micro-milling manufacturing process to ensure that there are no machining-based defects in fabricated components. However, it is also imperative to optimize, test, and validate the quality of the fabricated components for their intended usage over the life cycle of the components. In addition to their complex shape, these dental components are less than 10 mm in length and about 1 mm in diameter and as such, mechanical testing and quality validation of tensile, fatigue or impact is impossible under standard testing setups. Therefore, a comprehensive mechanical modeling of the dental components is crucially needed to validate the original dental components design or any design optimization before the fabrication process. Developing a mechanical model of the dental components is critical for Milident to mitigate technical and commercial risks because the company plans to launch production and sale of the dental components by the end of 2015. This venture will make Milident the first Canadian manufacturer of high-precision dental implant components. The project will provide Milident with the critical technical and scientific support to achieve this.