Title

A Computerized Tomographic Data Analysis System to Evaluate the Dental Implant Surface Roughness

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Abstract

Dental implants have been progressively used in the recent years to support and retain dental prosthesis. Implant surface roughness has been suggested as a crucial factor in implant osseointegration and long term survival of the implant and prosthesis, where a key factor for the success or failure of dental implants is the manner in which stresses are transferred to surrounding bone. In this study completely edentulous patients were rehabilitated by implant retained over denture in which two implant systems with different surface roughness were used. Peri implant bone density in Hounsfield Units (HU) was evaluated by analyze Computerized Tomographic (CT) images to judge the behavior of an implant system under functional loading, where DICOM raw data was imported into the analysis proposed system to correlate the bone density regarding to the HU values. Results are compared with clinical readings and previous findings, which it showed that there is a difference in peri implant bone density around regularly patterned and randomly patterned implant surfaces.

Publication Date

1-1-2015

Faculty

Faculty of Dentistry

Subject Area

Physical Sciences, General Computer Science

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Indexed in Web Of Science

yes

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.09.191

Volume

61

Keywords

Bone Density, Dental Implants, HU, Laser Microgroove Implants, RBT Implants, Surface Roughness

eISSN

18770509

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