An innovative approach for investigating the ceramic bracket-enamel interface - optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy

Roxana Otilia Romînu M.D.; Cosmin Sinescu M.D.; Mihai Romînu M.D.; Meda Negrutiu; Philippe Laissue; Sorin Mihali; Lavinia Cuc; Michael Hughes; Adrian Bradu; Adrian Podoleanu

doi:10.1117/12.814894

30 December 2008 An innovative approach for investigating the ceramic bracket-enamel interface - optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy

Roxana Otilia Romînu M.D., Cosmin Sinescu M.D., Mihai Romînu M.D., Meda Negrutiu, Philippe Laissue, Sorin Mihali, Lavinia Cuc, Michael Hughes, Adrian Bradu, Adrian Podoleanu

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Proceedings Volume 7139, 1st Canterbury Workshop on Optical Coherence Tomography and Adaptive Optics; 71390O (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.814894
Event: 1st Canterbury Workshop and School in Optical Coherence Tomography and Adaptive Optics, 2008, Canterbury, United Kingdom

Abstract

Bonding has become a routine procedure in several dental specialties - from prosthodontics to conservative dentistry and even orthodontics. In many of these fields it is important to be able to investigate the bonded interfaces to assess their quality. All currently employed investigative methods are invasive, meaning that samples are destroyed in the testing procedure and cannot be used again. We have investigated the interface between human enamel and bonded ceramic brackets non-invasively, introducing a combination of new investigative methods - optical coherence tomography (OCT) and confocal microscopy (CM). Brackets were conventionally bonded on conditioned buccal surfaces of teeth The bonding was assessed using these methods. Three dimensional reconstructions of the detected material defects were developed using manual and semi-automatic segmentation. The results clearly prove that OCT and CM are useful in orthodontic bonding investigations.

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Roxana Otilia Romînu M.D., Cosmin Sinescu M.D., Mihai Romînu M.D., Meda Negrutiu, Philippe Laissue, Sorin Mihali, Lavinia Cuc, Michael Hughes, Adrian Bradu, and Adrian Podoleanu "An innovative approach for investigating the ceramic bracket-enamel interface - optical coherence tomography and confocal microscopy", Proc. SPIE 7139, 1st Canterbury Workshop on Optical Coherence Tomography and Adaptive Optics, 71390O (30 December 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.814894

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