Mandibular Teeth Movement Variations in Tipping Scenario: A Finite Element Study on Several Patients

Abstract

Previous studies on computational modeling of tooth movement in orthodontic treatments are limited to a single model and fail in generalizing the simulation results to other patients. To this end, we consider multiple patients and focus on tooth movement variationsTooth movement variations under the identical load and boundary conditions both for intra- and inter-patient analyses. We introduce a novel computational analysis tool based on finite element models (FEMs) addressing how to assess initial tooth displacement in the mandibular dentition across different patients for uncontrolled tipping scenarios with different load magnitudes applied to the mandibular dentition. This is done by mode..