Aplicação do recurso de subtração radiografica digital na avaliação da região perimplantar

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

RESUMO

Radiographic evaluation in connection with implant installation is an important means of diagnosing changes in bone tissue around the implant, where during the healing and the early remodeling phases, a slight reduction of the marginal bone height occurs in the first year after implant placement. The proposition for this research was to validate the use of the digital subtractionradiography in the perimplant region assessment in an in vivo study. Thirty four patients were monitored by standardized periapical conventional radiography in thefirst postoperative follow-up after surgery for implant placement and four months later, prior to the second-stage surgery at the end of the healing period. The radiographs were digitized and digital subtraction radiography was created by means of EMAGOÒ software. The two types of images, digitized and digitalsubtraction radiography, were compared quantitatively by measuring bone density of a selected area by the histogram and by assessing bone height with linear measurements and also evaluating the reproducible inter-observers. Within the limits of this study, it was concluded that digital subtraction radiography has similar diagnostic performance to those of conventional digitized radiography in evaluating bone density however, bone height can be more precisely assessed with the subtraction images but the measurements has an inter-observers variability

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tecnica de subtração radiology diagnostico por imagem radiologia implantes dentarios dental implantation subtraction techniques diagnostic imaging

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