Development of a Workflow for Designing Patient-Specific Mandibular Reconstruction Implants and Predicting their Performance through Experimentally Validated Finite Element Models

Restoration of the normal mandibular form and function is attempted with reconstructive surgery. The current standard procedure to restore continuity defects of the mandible involves free tissue transfer with an autologous bone flap. Even though the success rates are high, several critical drawbacks have been associated with this procedure,...

A micromechanical approach To numerical modeling of yielding of open-cell porous structures under compressive loads

Today, interconnected open-cell porous structures made of titanium and its alloys are replacing the prevalent solid metals used in bone substitute implants. The advent of additive manufacturing techniques has enabled manufacturing of open-cell structures with arbitrary micro-structural geometry. In this paper, rhombic dodecahedron structures...