Published papers

© 2016 The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. A survey done recently showed that almost 30 percent of the accidents occurred during oral implant surgery were concerned with the mandibular canal in the trabecular bone region and most of them were related to the drilling process. One of the reasons known is due to the clinicians' lack of knowledge and experience. In order to overcome the problem, through the educational approach, we proposed and developed a new system mainly for dental colleges' students, by focusing on drilling the mandibular trabecular bone. The system comes in the form of an oral implant surgery training simulator that enables student to sense the reaction force during drilling. The developed system was then evaluated by expert clinicians and dental college's students. A total of 8 clinicians and 24 students tested all three samples of drilling force database. The clinicians were asked to describe the drilling force based on a stiffness scale while the students are required to drill two samples first before drilling the third sample. They were asked to sketch the third samples based on the comparison of previous samples. Based on the evaluation done, it was found that the quantification of force sensed during drilling could be derived from the combination of drilling force and speed obtained through the relative value of comparison with the previous or accumulated experience of drilling. The results of this study also indicate that the oral implant surgery training simulator could help students learn the difference of drilling force sense dependent on the bone quality through repeated usage and practices.

In order to discuss the quality assurance of additively manufactured lattice structure made by aluminum alloy (AlSi10Mg) using 3D printing technology or selective laser sintering technique, compression test, micro-CT imaging and finite element analysis were carried out. The specimens were manufactured by 2 printing service companies with different expertise, which led to the choice of different process parameters such as the building direction, support structure, powder bed temperature and laser scanning speed. The largely scattered compressive peak loads were in good linear positive correlation with the weight, which is the easiest and convenient index for the quality assurance. On the other hand, the apparent density was almost the same. The reason why the weight of the products was largely scattered was investigated by micro-CT image analysis and finite element analysis. Also by comparison with the CAD data, the influence of manufacturer-dependent process parameters on the strength was discussed.