Low-dose CBCT imaging of alveolar buccal bone adjacent to mandibular anterior teeth- a pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Accurate description of buccal bone adjacent to mandibular anterior teeth is helpful for planning and monitoring periodontal and orthodontic treatment. Low-dose cone beam computed tomography (LD-CBCT) imaging has shown promising results for very small dental structures in animals. This study asserts that LD-CBCT is sufficiently accurate to measure buccal alveolar bone adjacent to human mandibular anterior teeth.

Materials and methods

Buccal bone level adjacent to 16 mandibular anterior teeth from four human cadavers was measured radiographically using one high-dose (HD) CBCT protocol and two LD-CBCT protocols. The resulting radiographic measurements of buccal bone height (bl) and thickness (bt) were compared with reference probe and reflected-light microscopy meas

SUBMITTER: Ruetters M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9072474 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature