Main Applications and Recent Research Progresses of Additive Manufacturing in Dentistry

Figure 7

A commercialized 3D-printed Ti6Al4V implant (Tixos®, Leader Implants, Italy) was going to be inserted in the socket (a); the surface of this printed implant consisted of tremendous grooves with 14.6 to 152.5 μm in width and 21.4 to 102.4 μm in depth (b); the printed dental implant possessed satisfactory osteointegration after 3 years of functional loading due to its rough surface (c). Reprinted from [121].