Abstract
Morphological studies are carried out predominantly in dental or anthropological research not just because these disciplines are directly related to teeth: dental structures are able to provide a wide-range of important information. Traditional odontological (related to teeth) study techniques can be associated, in general, to descriptive and measuring approaches. Descriptive techniques have been always more developed and compensating scarceness of odontometrics, as traditional manual measurements provide definitely insufficient information for morphological assessments – only approximate size evaluations are possi- ble. However, the presented in the article new non-contact odontometric technique has proved its capability to overcome barriers and to improve dental measuring research through obtaining dense and accurate data of significant diversity and amount to turn quantitative assessments of dental structures into qualitative and related to morphology. The method itself is based on improved interpretation of dental morphology providing two basic stages: orientation of 3D models of teeth and measurements on series of its sections. At the final stage odontometric data is captured, re-calculated and subjected to analyses.
Highlights
As we have mentioned automated digital odontometry has been applied in studies referring to different material such as plaster models of dental arches, separate teeth, teeth with bone structures and others
Automated digital odontometry required micro-CT scans in order to reach the necessary degree of accuracy and detailed reconstruction of tooth surface
The suggested method of automated digital odontometry provides for obtaining objective measurements even in rather complicated circumstances and in addition possesses high sensitivity
Summary
Some essential modifications refer to 1960s and other suggestions relate to later years [4]. This method has been always linked to expertbased estimates of predominantly two parameters, obtained in two, usually and approximately perpendicular dimensions; the measurement accuracy has been accepted as 0.1 mm. Only general assessments are possible: the tooth is small or large; or the tooth is wide rather than long, etc Under such circumstances descriptive techniques come to the fore in odontological studies as there are much more morphological features which can be described for teeth in terms of their expression degree (again, expertly assessed) than measured
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