Research Article

Consequences of Peri-Implant Bone Loss in the Occlusal Load Transfer to the Supporting Bone in terms of Magnitude of Stress, Strain, and Stress Distribution: A Finite Element Analysis

Table 3

Maximum and minimum deformations (μm) in cortical and trabecular bone and in implants for all the models evaluated.

ModelCortical boneTrabecular boneImplant

3 mm defectMin0 μm0 μm5.691 μm
Max3.4866 μm10.553 μm18.06 μm

6 mm defectMin0 μm0 μm5.563 μm
Max3.408 μm14.899 μm36.392 μm

ControlMin0 μm0 μm4.500 μm
Max6.251 μm6.055 μm8.314 μm