Stability and aging resistance of a zirconia oral implant using a carbon fiber-reinforced screw for implant-abutment connection

Since their first application more than 50years ago [1], titanium implants constantly developed over time. Improvements affected the implant surface (turned, micro-roughened, active), the implant-abutment connection (from external to internal connections and from matched to switched platforms), and the alloys used for fabrication (from gold to titanium for abutment-screws and from pure titanium to titanium –zirconium alloys for the bulk material) [2], significantly reducing the incidence of technical and biological complications over time [3].
Source: Dental Materials - Category: Materials Science Authors: Source Type: research