Early detection of tooth wear by en face optical coherence tomography

Corina Mărcăuteanu; Meda Negrutiu; Cosmin Sinescu; Eniko Demjan; Mike Hughes; Adrian Bradu; George Dobre; Adrian Gh. Podoleanu

doi:10.1117/12.809828

18 February 2009 Early detection of tooth wear by en-face optical coherence tomography

Corina Mărcăuteanu, Meda Negrutiu, Cosmin Sinescu, Eniko Demjan, Mike Hughes, Adrian Bradu, George Dobre, Adrian Gh. Podoleanu

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Proceedings Volume 7162, Lasers in Dentistry XV; 716205 (2009) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.809828
Event: SPIE BiOS, 2009, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Excessive dental wear (pathological attrition and/or abfractions) is a frequent complication in bruxing patients. The parafunction causes heavy occlusal loads. The aim of this study is the early detection and monitoring of occlusal overload in bruxing patients. En-face optical coherence tomography was used for investigating and imaging of several extracted tooth, with a normal morphology, derived from patients with active bruxism and from subjects without parafunction. We found a characteristic pattern of enamel cracks in patients with first degree bruxism and with a normal tooth morphology. We conclude that the en-face optical coherence tomography is a promising non-invasive alternative technique for the early detection of occlusal overload, before it becomes clinically evident as tooth wear.

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Corina Mărcăuteanu, Meda Negrutiu, Cosmin Sinescu, Eniko Demjan, Mike Hughes, Adrian Bradu, George Dobre, and Adrian Gh. Podoleanu "Early detection of tooth wear by en-face optical coherence tomography", Proc. SPIE 7162, Lasers in Dentistry XV, 716205 (18 February 2009); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.809828

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