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Comparison of three-dimensional adaptation as per the rinsing time of temporary crown manufactured using a digital light processing printer (디지털 광 조명 방식으로 제작한 임시 크라운의 세척 시간에 따른 3차원 적합도 평가)

  • Lee, Beom-Il;You, Seung-Gyu;You, Seung-Min;Kim, Ji-Hwan
    • Journal of Technologic Dentistry
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    • v.42 no.4
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    • pp.334-340
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: This study aimed to compare three-dimensional adaptation with the rinsing time of the temporary crown produced using the digital light processing method. Methods: The maxillary right first molar abutment was scanned with a dental scanner. A temporary crown was designed with the scanned abutment. The designed crown was made of 10 temporary crowns using a digital light processing printer. The crowns were divided into the 5-minute and 10-minute rinsing groups; 5 temporary crown washes were performed for each group. In order to obtain the internal data, each group was scanned for a temporary crown. The three-dimensional fit was measured by superimposing the scanned internal surface data and the abutment data. The average comparison of three-dimensional adaptation was analyzed using the Mann-Whitney U test. Results: The 5-minute rinsing group showed a significantly higher adaptation of 71.42±3.08 ㎛ as compared to the 10-minute rinsing group (67.52±0.92 ㎛) (p<0.05). Conclusion: When making a temporary crown with a digital light processing method, a rinsing time of 10 minutes is appropriate.

Backprojection Filtering Method for Limited Angle Tomography (제한된 각도에서 단층영상 획득을 위한 역투사 후 필터링 방법)

  • Cho, Min-Kook;Kim, Ho-Kyung;Yin, Z-Hye;Kim, Tae-Woo
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.46-51
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    • 2008
  • We describe a backprojection filtering method for limited angle tomography. In order to reduce blur artifacts originated from the out-of-planes and control high-frequency noise, we employed two band-limited window functions, and which were realized by Hann filters in this study. Based on the experimentally measured data, the performance of the developed method is demonstrated by comparing with the conventional shift-and-add and filtered backprojection methods. Application of the developed method to the dental imaging has a potential to be used for the preoperative evaluation of the jaw for dental implants with much reduced patient dose instead of the conventional dental computed tomography.

Evaluation of Marginal and Internal Gap of Cobalt-Chromium Sintering Metal Coping Fabricated by Dental CAD/CAM System (치과 CAD/CAM 시스템으로 제작한 코발트-크롬 소결 금속 코핑의 변연 및 내면 적합도 평가)

  • Kim, Dong-Yeon;Sin, Chun-Ho;Jung, Il-Do;Kim, Ji-Hwan;Kim, Woong-Chul
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.536-541
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    • 2015
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluate the marginal and internal gap of Cobalt (Co)-Chromium (Cr) sintering metal coping fabricated by dental computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing systems. Abutment tooth 46 of universal numbering system was selected for the study. Twenty Co-Cr metal copings of two groups were manufactured and scanned. Co-Cr cast metal copings (CCM) group of ten were fabricated using investment, burnout and casing after subtractive manufacturing of wax block. Also, Co-Cr sintering metal copings (CSM) group of ten were fabricated using sintering processing after subtractive manufacturing of Co-Cr soft metal bock. Marginal and internal gap of Co-Cr metal copings of twenty were measured by digital microscope (${\times}160$) with silicone replica technique. The data was analyzed from IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 22.0 Statistical software for Mann-Whitney U test (${\alpha}=0.05$). $Mean{\pm}standard$ deviation of marginal gap of CCM group was $90.12{\pm}61.73{\mu}m$ of CSM group was $60.17{\pm}24.83{\mu}m$. However, two groups was statistically not different (p>0.05). This study showed that CSM group was clinically acceptable adaptation.

The Influence of Different Gypsum Materials on the Accuracy from Complete Arch Digital Impression (전악의 디지털 인상 채득 시 치과용 모형재가 디지털 모형 정확성에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Ki-Baek;Lee, Gyeong-Tak;Kim, Hae-Young;Kim, Jae-Hong
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.12 no.6
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    • pp.617-623
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    • 2012
  • This study was performed to measure the accuracy of different gypsum materials by a white light dental scanner. A master model with the prepared lower full arch tooth was used. The type IV and scannable stone were used for 20 stone casts (10 casts each) duplicated a master model of mandible. The distance between the reference points were measured and analyzed by the Delcam $Copycad^{(R)}$ (Delcam Plc, UK) 3D graphic software. The t-student test for paired samples were used for statistical analysis. The mean differences to master model for type IV stone and scannable stone model were 0.29~0.56 mm, and 0.17~0.35 mm, respectively. There were statistical differences in dimensional accuracy for full arch impression between the master model and type IV/scannable stone (p<0.05). Two different gypsum materials showed clinically acceptable accuracies of full arch digital impression produced by them. Besides, in both gypsum materials, the differences to the master model detected appear to provide enough accuracy for clinical application.

Relationship between Obesity and Dental Caries in Some University Students: A Pilot Study

  • Hwang, SooJeong;Kim, Hoon;Seo, MinSeock
    • Journal of dental hygiene science
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.127-132
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    • 2021
  • Background: Obesity and dental caries have common risk factors such as food intake, eating habits, and lifestyle. Nevertheless, there has been no consensus on the significant association between obesity and dental caries, and additional studies are needed. We investigated the relationship between obesity and dental caries in some college students in this pilot study. Methods: Forty-two obese college students (body mass index [BMI]≥25) registered at a University Obesity Clinic and 19 normal students (18.5≤BMI<25) were recruited. Oral examinations were conducted, and anthropometric data and blood samples were collected. The blood concentrations of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein, and triglyceride were also measured. After controlling for dental plaque index, a univariate analysis of dental caries indicators related to obesity was performed; partial correlation analysis was also conducted. A nonparametric test was used for the analysis of gender-related trends due to the limited number of participants. Results: The obese group had significantly fewer missing teeth (p=0.014), missing surfaces (p=0.035), filled surfaces (p=0.038), and decayed-missing-filled surfaces (p=0.020) than the normal group. There was no difference between the males in the normal and obese groups. The females in the obese group had significantly fewer missing teeth (p=0.003), missing surfaces (p=0.003), and decayed-missing-filled surfaces (p=0.046). Partial correlation analysis showed a weak negative correlation (r=-0.256) between the blood LDL concentration and decayed-missing-filled teeth. The other obesity and dental caries indicators were not correlated. Conclusion:The blood cholesterol concentration had a negative relationship with dental caries, and there were fewer cases of dental caries in the obese group in this study. However, it is important to clarify the relationship between obesity and dental caries through a dietary survey or additional investigations considering other confounding factors.

Polymerization Behavior of Polymeric Dental Restorative Composites Filled with Si-O Bridged Silica (Si-O Bridged 실리카가 충진된 치아수복용 고분자 복합체의 중합 특성)

  • Kim, Ohyoung;Lee, Jung Soo
    • Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.672-676
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    • 2005
  • To improve the application of polymeric dental restorative composite (PDRC) for the posterior and anterior restoration, silica bridged with siloxane unit was firstly prepared by heat-treating a silica filler at various temperatures. Degree of conversion (DC), depth of cure, and dynamic volumetric polymerization shrinkage values of PDRC filled with silica bridged with siloxane unit were investigated to study the effect of heat-treated silica on the polymerization behavior of PDRC. From the experimental result, it was found that depth of cure was decreased with an increase of heat treatment temperature. on the other hand, both DC and polymerization shrinkage values were uniformly enhanced with increasing the heat treatment temperature. This phenomenon can be explained from the study that showed decrease of average particle size of silica resulted in the increase of relative amount of resin matrix in PDRC.

Neural Network-Based Human Identification Using Teeth Contours (치아 윤곽선 정보를 이용한 신경회로망 기반 신원 확인 방안)

  • Park, Sang-Jin;Park, Hyungjun
    • Korean Journal of Computational Design and Engineering
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.275-282
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    • 2013
  • This paper proposes a method for human identification using teeth contours extracted from dental images that are captured from the frontal views of subjects each of who opens his or her mouth slightly. Each dental image has a black-colored region containing the subject's teeth contours which are usually different from subject to subject. This means that this black-colored region has bio-mimetic information useful for human identification. The basic idea of the method is to extract the upper and lower teeth contours from the dental image of each subject and to encode their geometric patterns using a back-propagation neural network model. After acquiring 400 teeth images form 10 university students, we used 300 images for the training data of the neural network model and 100 images for its verification. Experimental results have shown that the proposed neural network-based method can be used as an alternative solution for identification among a small group of humans with a low cost and simple setup.