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Optical comparison between micro‐CT and OCT in imaging of marginal composite adaptation: Observational study
Author(s) -
Bakhsh Turki A.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of microscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1365-2818
pISSN - 0022-2720
DOI - 10.1111/jmi.12988
Subject(s) - optical coherence tomography , materials science , biomedical engineering , composite number , shrinkage , tomography , confocal , optics , dentistry , composite material , medicine , physics
Dental composite is the most used aesthetic restorative biomaterial worldwide. However, it undergoes polymerisation shrinkage that could lead to loss of the interfacial seal between tooth and resin in some circumstances. This demands high‐resolution imaging technologies to detect these defects. This study carried out a comparison between microcomputed tomography (micro‐CT; Shimadzu, Japan) and swept‐source optical coherence tomography (SS‐OCT; Santec, Japan) in the detection of marginal adaptation defects at the tooth‐resin interface. Unlike in micro‐CT, it was possible to outline interfacial gaps along with tooth‐resin interfaces with SS‐OCT, which was attributed to the Fresnel diffraction of light. This in vitro comparison demonstrates SS‐OCT has great potential in dental imaging to effectively assess dental composite adaptation and marginal defects when high resolution is desired in real time. Lay Description Detection of tooth‐colored restoration defects had been assessed by different radiographic methods. However, most of these methods are either invasive or suffer from low‐resolution. In this study, a comparison has been carried out between two different high‐resolution imaging systems; microcomputed tomography and optical coherence tomography, to explore their potentials in detecting restorations defects. The results showed optical coherence tomography has a great accuracy in locating the underlying defects when the obtained images were validated against confocal laser scanning microscopy images.