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Research Project: 02/SAICT/2016/023940
Background
Background
Teeth play a key role in masticatory, aesthetics and phonetics. Loss of dental tissue has strong implications in individuals well-being and general health and entails large costs to healthcare systems worldwide.
Because of its high aesthetic similarity, dental tissue is usually replaced with ceramic materials, mainly zirconia and lithium disilicate, processed by CAD/CAM.
In the last years, the development of reliable cheaper artificial dental materials and of new efficient manufacturing methods has been pursued by medical and industrial communities.
Additive manufacturing (AM) is an attractive alternative to the actual methods of production of ceramic dental parts: it allows time, tool and material savings and the production of complex near-net-shape parts.
Project objective
Project objective
The main goal of this research project is to evaluate the applicability of an AM technology (robocasting) to produce reliable ceramic dental structures made of zirconia, able to resist to the harsh oral environment and demands.
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