The repeatability of periodontal imaging with intraoral ultrasound scanning.

Autor: Figueredo CA; School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. carlosal@ualberta.ca., Lai H; School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada., Gibson MP; School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.; School of Dentistry, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, United States., Le LH; Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada., Almeida FT; School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada., Major PW; School of Dentistry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical oral investigations [Clin Oral Investig] 2024 Feb 22; Vol. 28 (3), pp. 164. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 22.
DOI: 10.1007/s00784-024-05564-y
Abstrakt: Objective: Ultrasound is a non-invasive and low-cost diagnostic tool widely used in medicine. Recent studies have demonstrated that ultrasound imaging might have the potential to be used intraorally to assess the periodontium by comparing it to current imaging methods. This study aims to characterize the repeatability of intraoral periodontal ultrasound imaging.
Materials and Methods: Two hundred and twenty-three teeth were scanned from fourteen volunteers participating in this study. One operator conducted all the scans in each tooth thrice with a 20 MHz intraoral ultrasound. The repeatability of three measurements, alveolar bone crest to the cementoenamel junction (ABC-CEJ), gingival thickness (GT), and alveolar bone thickness (ABT), was calculated with intercorrelation coefficient (ICC). Measurements were also compared with mean absolute deviation (MAD), repeatability coefficient (RC), and descriptive statistics.
Results: ICC scores for intra-rater repeatability were 0.917(0.897,0.933), 0.849(0.816,0.878), and 0.790(0.746,0.898), MAD results were 0.610 mm (± 0.508), 0.224 (± 0.200), and 0.067 (± 0.060), and RC results were 0.648, 0.327, and 0.121 for ABC-CEJ, GT, and ABT measurements, respectively.
Conclusion: Results of the present study pointed towards good or excellent repeatability of ultrasound as a measurement tool for periodontal structures.
Clinical Relevance: Clinicians could benefit from the introduction of a novel chairside diagnostic tool. Ultrasound is a non-invasive imaging assessment tool for the periodontium with promising results in the literature. Further validation, establishment of scanning protocols, and commercialization are still needed before ultrasound imaging is available for clinicians.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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