Yasushi Shimada, Takaaki Sato, Go Inoue, Hisaichi Nakagawa, Tomoko Tabata, Yuan Zhou, Noriko Hiraishi, Tadamu Gondo, Syunsuke Takano, Kei Ushijima, Hirotoshi Iwabuchi, Yukiko Tsuji, Sadr Alireza, Yasunori Sumi, Junji Tagami
(1) Background: Dental caries, if diagnosed at the initial stage, can be arrested and remineralized by a non-operative therapeutic approach preserving tooth structure. Accurate and reproducible diagnostic procedure is required for the successful management of incipient caries. The aim of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 3D swept-source optical coherence tomography (3D SS-OCT) for enamel caries at smooth tooth surface if the lesion was with remineralization. (2) Methods: Forty-seven tooth surfaces of 24 extracted human teeth visibly with/without enamel caries (ICDAS code 0-3) were selected and used in this study...
August 28, 2022: Materials