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Combined with the recent advances in the medical field, mechanical engineering plays a significant role in this topic. This work aims at studying the elasto-static response of a human molar tooth as a case study, respecting the integral property of the tooth and different composite materials of the dental restoration. The structural integrity of the case study will be assessed through advanced numerical modelling resorting to meshless methods within the stress analysis on the molar tooth under different loading conditions. In this regard, bruxism is considered as being one of the most important cases that cause damage and fracture in a human tooth. The obtained meshless methods results are compared to the finite element method (FEM) solution. The advantages and disadvantages of the analysed materials are identified, which could be used by the producers of the studied materials to improve their quality. On the other hand, a computational framework, as the one presented here, would assist the clinical practice and treatment decision (in accordance with each patient\u2019s characteristics).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/polym16040458","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,7]],"date-time":"2024-02-07T03:47:09Z","timestamp":1707277629000},"page":"458","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Elasto-Static Analysis of Composite Restorations in a Molar Tooth: A Meshless Approach"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4345-7495","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Farid","family":"Mehri Sofiani","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"FEUP, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Dr. Roberto Frias Street, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8901-9493","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Behzad V.","family":"Farahani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"FEUP, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Dr. Roberto Frias Street, 4200-465 Porto, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Jorge","family":"Belinha","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"ISEP, Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Mechanical Engineering Department, School of Engineering, Polytechnic Porto, Dr. Ant\u00f3nio Bernardino de Almeida Street, 431, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,2,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"162","article-title":"The Effect of Aging on Nano-Hardness and Modulus of Elasticity of Four Types of Composites: An in-vitro Study","volume":"5","author":"Eskandarizadeh","year":"2016","journal-title":"J. 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