The purposes of this study were clinical comparison and evaluation between digital radiography and conventional radiography for the detection of artificial interproximal caries.
Four freshly extracted, unrestored posterior teeth were obtained and canes was simulated by drilling semicircled defect with variable size at the interproximal surface of each tooth.
The experiments were performed with IBM-PC/32 bit-DX compatible, video camera(VM-S8200, Hitachi Co., Japan), color monitor(Multisync 3D, NEC, Japan). Sylvia Image Capture Board for the ADC(analog to digital converter) was used, and spatial resolution was 512 x 480 with 256 gray levels.
The obtained results were as follows:
1. At the condition of under exposure, the radiographs were superior to the digital images in readability. Also, as the size of the artificial lesion was increased, readability of the radiographs was elevated.
2. The digital images were superior to the radiographs in readability especially under over exsposure.
3. As the exposure time and size of lesion was increased, the gray level of region of interest of the digital image was decreased proportionally.
4. As the F-value of average gray level of region of interest at individual exposure time and size of lesion, gray level of the all lesion sizes was decreased in comparison with that of the normal enamel.
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