Original scientific paper
Analysis of Dental Supportive Structures in Orthodontic Therapy
Ivana SavićPavičin
orcid.org/0000-0002-5210-1765
; University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Dental Anthropology, Zagreb, Croatia
Nataša Ivošević-Magdalenić
; Private practice in orthodontics, Čakovec, Croatia
Tomislav Badel
; University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Prosthetic Dentistry, Zagreb, Croatia
Krešimir Bačić
; Private dental practice, Zagreb, Croatia
Jadranka Keros
; University of Zagreb, School of Dental Medicine, Department of Dental Anthropology, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The purpose was to define the impact of orthodontic appliances on the density of the underlying dental bone tissue. Radiographic images of teeth were made in 27 study subjects before and twelve months after fixed orthodontic appliances were carried. The radiographs were digitalized and the levels of gray at sites where the greatest bone resorption was expected were transformed into optic density. In the standardization and comparison of values from the first and the second measurements the copper calibration wedge – a stepwedge – was used. Optic densities in the observed sites were compared with optic densities of the calibration wedge and expressed as their thickness equivalent. The study results showed no statistically significant difference in bone densities, indicating that the orthodontic therapy was properly planned and carried out and that excessive forces were not used in the applied correctional procedures.
Keywords
bone density; densitometry; functional orthodontic appliance
Hrčak ID:
89410
URI
Publication date:
5.10.2012.
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