Evaluation of the visibility of peri-implant bone defects using ultrasonography with two types of probes.

Autor: Orhan K; Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Ankara University, Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey.; Medical Design Application and Research Center (MEDITAM), Ankara University, Turkey., Serindere G; Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey., Belgin CA; Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Hatay Mustafa Kemal University, Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey., Kurt MH; Department of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology, Ankara University, Faculty of Dentistry, Turkey.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of ultrasonography [J Ultrason] 2021 Aug 16; Vol. 21 (86), pp. e206-e212. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Sep 09.
DOI: 10.15557/JoU.2021.0033
Abstrakt: Background: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of intraoral and extraoral ultrasonography evaluations performed with two different types of probes (linear and "hockey stick") for the visibility of peri-implant bone defects. Material and methods: Fourteen implants were inserted into sheep heads. Peri-implant bone defects were created without knowing the depth, which served as the gold standard for the defects. The defects were scanned with two different probe types (linear and hockey stick probes) extraorally and intraorally, using two different ultrasonography systems. For intra- and interobserver agreements for each probe types, Kappa coefficients were calculated. Results: The lowest ICC values were found in both intra- (ICC = 0.696) and interobserver reliability (ICC = 0.762) obtained with the extraorally used linear probe. There was a high agreement with the gold standard when using hockey sticky probes intraorally. For both linear probes, there were no significant differences in agreement among the two observers and the gold standard ( p >0.05). Conclusions: High agreement was found when using high-frequency hockey stick probes intraorally, which means that they can be used with good effect for the evaluation of the visibility of peri-implant bone defects. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first one on this subject. Thus, it can be stated that US can be an alternative method of examining defects. However, further studies are needed to evaluate the effectiveness of US in visualizing peri-implant bone defects.
Competing Interests: Conflict of interest Authors do not report any financial or personal connections with other persons or organizations which might negatively affect the contents of this publication and/or claim authorship rights to this publication.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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