The design of a vibration transducer to monitor the integrity of dental implants

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of Engineering in Medicine

Volumn 212, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 265-272

  Cawlcy, P ^a,c   Pavlakovic, B ^b   Allcync, D N ^c   George, R ^a   Back, T ^b   Meredith, N ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Nobelbiocare AB   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dental implants; NOT; Osseointegration; Transducer; Vibration

Indexed keywords

BONE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NONINVASIVE MEDICAL PROCEDURES; STIFFNESS; TRANSDUCERS;

TITANIUM IMPLANTS; VIBRATION TRANSDUCERS;

DENTAL PROSTHESES;

TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BONE REGENERATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; TOOTH IMPLANTATION; TRANSDUCER; VIBRATION;

BIOMECHANICS; DENTAL IMPLANTATION, ENDOSSEOUS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; OSSEOINTEGRATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TITANIUM; TRANSDUCERS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0031635407     PISSN: 09544119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/0954411981534042     Document Type: Article

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