The Use of Customized Three-Dimensionally Printed Mandible Prostheses with a Pressure-Reducing Device: A Finite Element Analysis in Different Chewing Positions, Biomechanical Testing, and In Vivo Animal Study Using Lanyu Pigs

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(a) Individualized templates for osteotomy. (b) Light-cured 3D-printed surgical templates. (c) The mandibular body between the right first premolar and the third molar was resected using 5 mm-wide reciprocating saw blades. (d, h) The mandibular corpus was prepared and fully exposed through submandibular skin incision. The templates were fixed on the mandible angle posteriorly and the tooth surface anteriorly. (e–g) The CMP-PRD was fabricated from pure titanium using the LaserCUSING technique.

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