Restoration of the functions of a natural tooth in dental implants
Artificial intelligence, machine learning for designing elastic properties of dental implants, in vitro and in-vivo validations
Materials: Porous titanium alloys
Applications: dental care
Objectives:
- Equity and inclusion for edentulous patients
- Materials for personalized medicine
- Customizable volume production and shape
- Validated biocompatibility
- Functionally graded properties to reduce risk of failure
- Reduce number of interventions
Potential collaborators: Jianping Fu, Jerard Gordon, Allen Liu, Edgar Meyhofer, Chinedum Okwudire, Bogdan Popa, Kathleen Sienko, Wenda Tan
Partners at the UM School of Dentistry: Sun-Yun Bak, Laurie McCauley, Gustavo Mendonca,, Yuji Mishina, Ben Swanson
Funding: NIH, NSF, Private Practitioners