Modeling bone regeneration around endosseous implants
Modeling bone regeneration around endosseous implants
Modeling bone regeneration around endosseous implants
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xivCONTENTS3.3 Peri-implant osseointegration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543.3.1 Mathematical model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 543.3.2 Differentiation rates and tissue formation . . . . . . . 593.4 Numerical simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.4.1 Model parameters and numerical method . . . . . . . 653.4.2 Numerical results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 673.5 Discussion and conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 754 Moving boundary model for <strong>endosseous</strong> healing 794.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 794.2 Recent mathematical models . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 814.3 Moving boundary model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.3.1 Mature and immature cells . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 834.3.2 <strong>Modeling</strong> approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844.4 Model validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924.4.1 Numerical simulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924.4.2 Model parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 934.4.3 Sensitivity analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 984.4.3.1 Numerical solutions for various mesh resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1084.4.3.2 Convergence against the mesh resolution . . 1174.5 Results and discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1244.6 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1285 Numerical algorithm 1315.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1315.2 Mathematical model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1325.3 Numerical method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345.3.1 Positivity of the solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1345.3.2 Definitions of cells and vertices in the grid . . . . . . . 1365.3.2.1 Domain evolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1375.3.2.2 Treatment and reconstruction of active cells 1375.3.3 Level set equation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1395.3.4 PDE discretization in space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1405.3.5 Advection-diffusion discretization . . . . . . . . . . . . 1455.3.5.1 Linear flux due to cell differentiation . . . . . 1455.3.5.2 Fluxes due to cell migration . . . . . . . . . 1485.3.5.3 Gradient approximation at cell edges . . . . 1535.3.6 Nonlinear system of conservation laws . . . . . . . . . 1585.3.6.1 The strictly hyperbolic case . . . . . . . . . . 1625.3.6.2 Nonconvex flux function . . . . . . . . . . . . 1665.3.6.3 Nonstrictly hyperbolic system . . . . . . . . 1705.3.6.4 Weakly hyperbolic system . . . . . . . . . . . 1725.3.6.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176