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- Title
Enamel cracks evaluation --A method to predict tooth surface damage during the debonding.
- Authors
DUMBRYTE, Irma; JONAVICIUS, Tomas; LINKEVICIENE, Laura; LINKEVICIUS, Tomas; PECIULIENE, Vytaute; MALINAUSKAS, Mangirdas
- Abstract
The objective of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effect of the enamel cracks on the tooth damage during the debonding. Measurements of the cracks characteristics (visibility, direction, length, and location) were performed utilizing a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) technique and mathematically derived formulas (x=h/30, l=n*x) before and following the removal of mechanically retained metal and ceramic brackets. The likelihood of having greater extent enamel defects was higher for the teeth with pronounced cracks (odds vatios, OR=3.728), increased when the crack was located in more than one zone of the tooth (OR=1.998), and the inclination did not exceed 30-45° (OR=0.505). Using ceramic brackets the risk of greater amount tooth structure defects raised 1.45 times (OR=1.450). Enamel crack showing all these characteristics at the beginning of the orthodontic treatment and the use of ceramic brackets might predispose to higher risk of greater extent tooth surface damage after the debonding by 20.4%.
- Subjects
DENTAL enamel; TOOTH fractures; DEBONDING; SCANNING electron microscopy; DENTAL ceramics; ORTHODONTICS
- Publication
Dental Materials Journal, 2015, Vol 34, Issue 6, p828
- ISSN
0287-4547
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4012/dmj.2015-085