Root canal filling materials spread pattern mimicking root fractures in dental CBCT images

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• 作者：Masahiro Iikubo ; DDS ; PhD^a ; ^{Machapy@dent.tohoku.ac.jp" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; Takashi Osano ; DDS ; PhD^b ; Tsukasa Sano ; DDS ; PhD^c ; Akitoshi Katsumata ; DDS ; PhD^d ; Eiichiro Ariji ; DDS ; PhD^e ; Kaoru Kobayashi ; DDS ; PhD^f ; Takashi Sasano ; DDS ; PhD^g ; Mamoru Wakoh ; DDS ; PhD^h ; Kenji Seki ; DDS ; PhDⁱ ; Ikuho Kojima ; DDS ; PhD^j ; Maya Sakamoto ; DDS ; PhD^k
• 刊名：Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：October 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：120
• 期：4
• 页码：521-527
• 全文大小：566 K

文摘

To clarify the cause of artificial tooth–root fracture lines in cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) images caused by root canal filling materials and to enhance the diagnostic performance of CBCT.

Study Design

We analyzed the CBCT images of 18 extracted human teeth (9 upper central incisors and 9 lower premolars) that were filled with a size 50 gutta-percha cone and inserted into tooth sockets in a human skull.

Results

The CBCT images of the incisors displayed artificial lines in the oblique directions, notably the mesiobuccal, distolingual, distobuccal and mesiolingual directions, but only rarely in the cross-directions (buccal, lingual, mesial, and distal). In the premolars, the reverse was true, with lines mainly in the cross-directions, mesial and distal directions particularly. The lines were predominantly at the cervical slice.

Conclusions

Artifacts resulting from root filling material appear along the long axis of the alveolar bones, and resemble root fractures.