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19 March 2015 Application of color image processing and low-coherent optical computer tomography in evaluation of adhesive interfaces of dental restorations
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Abstract
Durability of bonded interfaces between dentin and a polymer material in resin-based composite restorations remains a clinical dentistry challenge. In the present study the evolution of bonded interfaces in biological active environment is estimated in vivo. A novel in vivo method of visual diagnostics that involves digital processing of color images of composite restorations and allows the evaluation of adhesive interface quality over time, has been developed and tested on a group of volunteers. However, the application of the method is limited to the analysis of superficial adhesive interfaces. Low-coherent optical computer tomography (OCT) has been tested as a powerful non-invasive tool for in vivo, in situ clinical diagnostics of adhesive interfaces over time. In the long-term perspective adhesive interface monitoring using standard methods of clinical diagnostics along with colour image analysis and OCT could make it possible to objectivise and prognosticate the clinical longevity of composite resin-based restorations with adhesive interfaces.
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Nadezda O. Bessudnova, Olga A. Shlyapnikova, Sergey B. Venig, Elina A. Genina, and Alexandr V. Sadovnikov "Application of color image processing and low-coherent optical computer tomography in evaluation of adhesive interfaces of dental restorations", Proc. SPIE 9448, Saratov Fall Meeting 2014: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine XVI; Laser Physics and Photonics XVI; and Computational Biophysics, 94480C (19 March 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2179943
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KEYWORDS
Human-machine interfaces

Adhesives

Computed tomography

Composites

Diagnostics

Optical computing

Optical tomography

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