BRACKETS TEETH SOFTWARE

The accuracy of the industrial X-ray micro-computer tomography has been shown to have improved quality of scans over medical CT scans. It has become a widely accepted tool to investigate internal and external structures in the field of metrology. The industrial X-ray micro-computer tomography is a well-known method for assessment of various dental products and has been used successfully with dental materials for void determination. The adaptation of the three brackets to the various teeth can be compared by looking at their radii and angles that were determined in this method. These standardized landmarks from each orthodontic bracket can be applied onto the various plaster teeth that was scanned. Three orthodontic brackets could be assessed by establishing co-ordinate points of proposed standardized landmarks on the orthodontic brackets.

BRACKETS TEETH SOFTWARE

Here the authors describe a method to compare the curvatures obtained from an industrial X-ray micro-computer tomography scanner and processing software of orthodontic brackets and plaster casts of teeth. Previous methods from the literature determined the curvature of teeth through the superimposition of circular templates onto dental plaster models as well as the use of acrylic arcs of various diameters. Teeth on the other hand have variation in their curvatures and the question remains how well an orthodontic brackets truly adapt to the teeth. The complexity arise due to the different designs of their fitting surfaces, margins and curvatures of orthodontic brackets. The determination of the orthodontic brackets’ adaptation to the curvatures of teeth is a difficult topic to study.

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