Experimental and Numerical Modeling of Screws Used for Rigid Internal Fixation of Mandibular Fractures

Figure 1

(a) Experimental setup for the pull-out tests, (b) typical specimen after cylindrical failure with material trapped between screw threads, (c) pull-out specimen with vertical cracks, and (d) pull-out specimen with diagonal cracks.

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