Overdenture attachment selection and the loading of implant and denture-bearing area. Part 2: A methodical study using five types of attachment

: In general, an implant is loaded via axial and horizontal forces. Besides this, moment loading can also occur. The aim of this study was to investigate how different prosthetic connectors with overdentures develop force transfer to implant and bone as well as to the denture‐bearing alveolar ridge. Five connectors were investigated on a stereolithographic model fabricated according to a real patient situation. The model was fitted with strain gauges on the “bone” distal and medial to the implants and with vertical force transducers in the alveolar “bone” under the denture‐bearing area. The parallel‐sided rigid telescopic connector developed the highest moment loading of the implant (P