Detailed Response to Reviewers

Ms. Ref. No.:  MATPR-D-20-05629

Title: Study of the Tribocorrosion occurring at the Implant and Implant Alloy Interface: Dental Implant
Materials
Materials Today: Proceedings

Respected Reviewers,

Please find below the responses to your review comments. All comments except one have been accepted and
accordingly addressed.

Reviewer #1: 1. Check the sentences arrangements in the sections 2.2.2 and 3.2
2. fig 7, fig 8, fig 9 x-axis Titles are not clear
3. fig 9, fig 11, fig 12, fig 13, 14, 15 x axis and Y axis scaling is not clear

Responses by Authors:

1. Addressed.
2. Addressed. Graphs have been reformatted.
3. Addressed. Graphs have been reformatted.

Reviewer #2: The manuscript reports the Study of the Tribocorrosion occurring at the Implant and Implant
Alloy Interface: Dental Implant Materials. The authors studied effects of wear and corrosion phenomenon in
dental implant materials(Grade 5 Titanium (Ti6Al4V), Yttria Stabilized Zirconia and Zirconia Toughened
Alumina) quantitatively.
This manuscript must need major improvement to make it upto the mark. The reviewer has  the below queries
for the authors to address before this manuscript can be considered after a major revision for publication.
1.      In the introduction, the authors reported various work done in the research area(DIMs). The introduction
fails to reflect the novelty/contribution(s) of the present study.
2.      Section 2, subsections 2.1.1 and 2.1.2; the authors explained the advantages of materials investigating.
Don't you feel it's important to assign references to your claim?
3.      Equation 3 should come before equation 2.
4.      Page 7, line 3[accept: Equation 6 has been used to determine the results].
5.      Figures 7,8 and 9 should be combined. It will appear clearer when combined than in the present scattered
form. Besides, all the spectra sprout from zero of sliding distance with variation magnitudes.
6.      Table 4 is confusing. Consider rearrangement; i.e. materials in questioned should come to the row cells
and take (wear coeff. Of the com, …) to the column cells. Ditto to Table 1. See Table 2.
7.      Table captions by standard should appear at the top of the table. Check all the tables and correct
accordingly.
8.      Figures 10 - 13 are not readable. The axes lines are missing
9.      Generally, this study is not rich in art of work(The authors really need to work on present look of the
figures).

Responses by Authors:
1. The novelty/contribution (s) of the present study are: “In the present study, an attempt has been made
to experimentally prove that the ZTA | Grade 5 Titanium coupling has a lower wear coefficient and the
ZTA pin when subjected to corrosion has a corrosion rate significantly lower than the other 2 materials
under investigation. Previous studies have limited their investigation to quantifiers such as wear
volume loss, coefficient of friction and rate of corrosion. However, the research is taken further by
determination of the wear depth, wear coefficients and polarization resistance measurements of the
materials under investigation which are critical metrics in evaluation of materials subjected to
Tribocorrosion. Further, the evaluation of corrosion has been performed as per the ASTM F2129
standard which is the standard test method for conducting cyclic potentiodynamic polarization
measurements to determine the corrosion susceptibility of implant materials. This standard is a
recognized consensus standard for non-clinical investigation of engineering tests such as corrosion for
implant materials by the US Food and Drug Administration. The experimental results of two key
variants of zirconia implant materials have been thoroughly investigated and are discussed in detail
with ZTA being suggested as a possible replacement to existing commercially used implant materials”

2. References have been added.

3. Addressed.
4. Addressed.
5. Sliding distance is a function of the wear track diameter, rotational frequency, radius of the pin and the
total time. Since the wear track diameter differs for the 3 materials, a graph combining the existing 3
graphs is a misrepresentation of the results obtained as the X-axis values are not alike and thus cannot
be aggregated into 1 combination graph. An increase in sliding distance accompanied by decreased loss
in height of the pin and reduced number of cycles (or time) are the indicators of greater wear resistance
of the materials being investigated when investigated in the context of sliding distance.
6. Addressed.
7. Addressed.
8. Addressed. Graphs have been reformatted.
9. Graphs have been reformatted.