RADIOLOGIC STUDY ON LAMINA DURA

Lamina dura의 X-선학적 연구

The study was performed to investigae the thickness of lamina dura of the human teeth in periodontal disease, which obtained from the intraoral roentgenograms of the 122 cases taken by bisecting technic. All films were divided into the different ages, the different sexes, and the different location of the different teeth. The obtained results were as follows: 1. Compared with the normal teeth, the thickness of lamina dura in periodontal disease is in creased in all of different ages, sexes and teeth. (equation omitted) 2. Generally, the alveolar crest portion is the thickest among the root surfaces, and midroot, apex followed, and the average thinckness of the posterior teeth is thicker than that of anterior teeth. The mean value of the whole maxillary teeth is almost same as that of mandibular teeth. On the whole cases, the differences of male and female is about 0.01㎜, which is not a significant differences.