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International Journal of Dentistry
Volume 2017, Article ID 5920714, 11 pages
https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/5920714
Research Article

Osseointegration of a 3D Printed Stemmed Titanium Dental Implant: A Pilot Study

James Tedesco,1 Bryan E. J. Lee,2 Alex Y. W. Lin,1,3 Dakota M. Binkley,4 Kathleen H. Delaney,5 Jacek M. Kwiecien,5,6 and Kathryn Grandfield1,2

1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
2School of Biomedical Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
4School of Integrated Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
5Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
6Department of Clinical Pathomorphology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Correspondence should be addressed to Kathryn Grandfield; ac.retsamcm@dleifdnargk

Received 19 May 2017; Revised 30 August 2017; Accepted 3 October 2017; Published 19 November 2017

Academic Editor: Silvio M. Meloni

Copyright © 2017 James Tedesco et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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