Imaging dental fluorosis at SWIR wavelengths from 1300 to 2000-nm
- 5 March 2021
- conference paper
- conference paper
- Published by SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng in Proceedings of SPIE
- Vol. 11627, 116270Q
- https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2588696
Abstract
Dental fluorosis is an increasing problem in the U.S. due to excessive exposure to fluoride from the environment. Fluorosis causes hypomineralization of the enamel during tooth development and mild fluorosis is visible as faint white lines on the tooth surface while the most severe fluorosis can result in pitted surfaces. It is difficult to quantify the severity of fluorosis and assessments are limited to subjective visual assessments. Dental fluorosis appears with very high contrast at short wavelength infrared (SWIR) wavelengths beyond 1400-nm and we hypothesize that these wavelengths may be better suited for detecting mild fluorosis and for estimating the severity. In this study the contrast of fluorosis of varying severity on extracted human permanent teeth was measured at SWIR wavelengths ranging from 1300-2000-nm using an extended range InGaAs camera and broadband light sources. Cross polarization optical coherence tomography was used to measure the depth of hypomineralization.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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