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- Title
Enamel microcracks in terms of orthodontic treatment: A novel method for their detection and evaluation.
- Authors
DUMBRYTE, Irma; LINKEVICIENE, Laura; LINKEVICIUS, Tomas; MALINAUSKAS, Mangirdas
- Abstract
The study aimed at introducing current available techniques for enamel microcracks (EMCs) detection, and presenting a method for direct quantitative analysis of an individual EMC. Measurements of the detailed EMCs characteristics (location, length, and width) were taken from the reconstructed images of the buccal tooth surface (teeth extracted from two age groups of patients) employing a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and our derived formulas before and after ceramic brackets removal. Measured parameters of EMCs for younger age group were 2.41 µm (width), 3.68 mm (length) before and 2.73 µm, 3.90 mm after debonding; for older --4.03 µm, 4.35 mm before and 4.80 µm, 4.37 mm after brackets removal. Following debonding EMCs increased for both groups, however the changes in width and length were statistically insignificant. Regardless of the age group, proposed method enabled precise detection of the same EMC before and after debonding, and quantitative examination of its characteristics.
- Subjects
ORTHODONTICS; MICROCRACKS; DENTAL enamel; DENTAL extraction; SCANNING electron microscopy
- Publication
Dental Materials Journal, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 4, p438
- ISSN
0287-4547
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4012/dmj.2016-264