PerioMechanics

Notes

Journal

Three essays from clinic. Written for colleagues. Readable if you have sat through one honest periodontal explanation.

No invented papers. No unpublished trial percentages. If you wanted plates first, the lab is the ordered path.

  1. 2026-06-18 · 6 min

    Perfusion is not a footnote: why PDL blood flow belongs in surgical simulation

    We suture for blood supply. Then we simulate as if the ligament were a dry rubber. The contradiction would be funny if it were not in the treatment plan.

  2. 2026-05-04 · 8 min

    Peri-implantitis: if the foundational model is incomplete, how long can we rely on it?

    Biofilm explanations of peri-implantitis are not false. They are unfinished. Unfinished models are how a field keeps repeating the same surgery with more confidence.

  3. 2026-03-12 · 7 min

    Clinical sketch → FEA: closing the gap between periodontology and MedTech engineering

    We already think in load paths. We just hand the engineer a radiograph and a smile and hope the constitutive model arrives by intuition.