ArticleJournal of dental research2020
Thermal Imaging of Root Caries In Vivo.
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- Assessment of the activity of root caries lesions using short wavelength infrared imaging - an in vitro pilot study.Journal of dentistry · 2025Article
- In vitro Assessment of lesion activity using simultaneous time-resolved reflectance imaging at 1300 and 1950 nm.Lasers in medical science · 2024Article
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- Assessment of the activity of secondary caries lesions with short-wavelength infrared, thermal, and optical coherence tomographic imaging.Journal of biomedical optics · 2023Article
- Active Surveillance of Root Caries in Vivo with CP-OCT.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Analysis of the transparent surface layer formed at the surfaces of arrested enamel caries lesions with tomographic imaging methods.JADA foundational science · 2023Article
- Monitoring silver diamine fluoride application with optical coherence tomography and thermal imaging: An in vitro proof of concept study.Lasers in surgery and medicine · 2022Article
- Application and Performance of Artificial Intelligence Technology in Detection, Diagnosis and Prediction of Dental Caries (DC)-A Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Emissivity evaluation of human enamel and dentin.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- High Contrast Reflectance Imaging of Enamel Demineralization and Remineralization at 1950-nm for the Assessment of Lesion Activity.Lasers in surgery and medicine · 2021Article
- Artificial intelligence in digital cariology: a new tool for the diagnosis of deep caries and pulpitis using convolutional neural networks.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Article
- Dynamic SWIR imaging near the 1950-nm water absorption band for caries lesion diagnosis.Journal of biomedical optics · 2021Article
- High contrast reflectance imaging at 1950 nm for the assessment of lesion activity on extracted teeth.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering · 2021Article
- Use of SWIR dehydration and OCT to assess the complete arrest of simulated incipient caries lesions.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical EngineeringArticle
- Assessing lesion activity of secondary lesions on extracted teeth by thermal dehydration measurement and optical coherence tomography.Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical EngineeringArticle
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Abstract
Improved methods are needed to assess the structure and activity of lesions on root surfaces in order to improve clinical decision making. Conventional visual and tactile methods for assessing lesion activity are not reliable, and the clinician is often unable to evaluate if the lesion is progressing or has remineralized. An important marker of an arrested lesion is a highly mineralized surface zone that forms when mineral is deposited in the outer layer of the lesion. In vitro studies have shown that a mineralized surface zone influences the kinetics of water evaporation and the surface temperature while drying. Temperature changes can be monitored by measuring the thermal emission with thermal imaging. Studies have also shown that the depth and severity of demineralization and the thickness of the highly mineralized transparent surface zone on arrested lesions can be measured nondestructively with optical coherence tomography (OCT). Thermal imaging at 8-µm to 13-µm wavelengths was completed on 30 test subjects with a suspected active root caries lesion by monitoring thermal emission from the tooth surfaces during 30 s of air drying. Lesions were also evaluated using cross-polarization OCT (CP-OCT) during lesion dehydration to identify transparent surface zones indicative of arrested lesions and determine if shrinkage occurred during drying. The overall thermal emission recorded during drying was significantly different (
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