• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.396-401
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• 2014

Peri-implantitis is an inflammatory disease of the peri-implant tissue by bacterial infection or other factors, which results in peri-implant bone loss. Many nonsurgical treatments were tried on initial to moderate peri-implantitis lesion to reduce the inflammation. Some of these treatments made effective results, however, they were not definitively predictable. To prevent peri-implantitis and further peri-implant bone loss, early intervention is the most important. Early detection of peri-implant infection through the regular maintenance care can make it possible to do early nonsurgical intervention. Nonsurgical intervention is effective on peri-implant mucositis and can also be effective on initial peri-implantitis lesion. If the peri-implantitis is not resolves by nonsurgical treatment, surgical approach should be considered.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.137-144
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the anatomic circle around the impacted lower third molar to show, document, and correlate essential findings that should be included in the routine radiographic assessment protocol as clinically meaningful factors in overall case evaluation and treatment planning. Materials and Methods: Cone-beam computed tomographic images of impacted lower third molars were selected according to specific inclusion criteria. Impacted teeth were classified according to their position before assessment. The adjacent second molars were assessed for distal caries, distal bone loss, and root resorption. The fourth finding was the presence of a retromolar canal distal to the impaction. Communication with the dentist responsible for each case was done to determine whether these findings were detected or undetected by them before communication. Results: Statistically significant correlations were found between impaction position, distal bone loss, and detected distal caries associated with the adjacent second molar. The greatest percentage of undetected findings was found in the evaluation of distal bone status, followed by missed detection of the retromolar canal. Conclusion: The radiographic assessment protocol for impacted third molars should consider a step-by-step evaluation for second molars, and clinicians should be aware of the high prevalence of second molar affection in horizontal and mesioangular impactions. They also should search for the retromolar canal due to its associated clinical considerations.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제53권3호
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• pp.193-198
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• 2023

Purpose: Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to play a major role in medical diagnostics. Periodontal disease is one of the most common oral diseases. The early diagnosis of periodontal disease is essential for effective treatment and a favorable prognosis. This study aimed to assess the effectiveness of AI in diagnosing periodontal bone loss through radiographic analysis. Materials and Methods: A literature search involving 5 databases (PubMed, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Health and Medical Collection, Dentistry and Oral Sciences) was carried out. A specific combination of keywords was used to obtain the articles. The PRISMA guidelines were used to filter eligible articles. The study design, sample size, type of AI software, and the results of each eligible study were analyzed. The CASP diagnostic study checklist was used to evaluate the evidence strength score. Results: Seven articles were eligible for review according to the PRISMA guidelines. Out of the 7 eligible studies, 4 had strong CASP evidence strength scores (7-8/9). The remaining studies had intermediate CASP evidence strength scores (3.5-6.5/9). The highest area under the curve among the reported studies was 94%, the highest F1 score was 91%, and the highest specificity and sensitivity were 98.1% and 94%, respectively. Conclusion: AI-based detection of periodontal bone loss using radiographs is an efficient method. However, more clinical studies need to be conducted before this method is introduced into routine dental practice.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.89-97
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• 1994

Although bone scan is a highly sensitive test for detecting bone metastasis, its findings are often limited in specificity and cannot be used for assessing the bone marrow. Bone marrow scintigraphy may provide useful information but previous experience with radiolabelled colloid has been disappointing. Recently, $^{99m}Tc$ labeled anti-granulocyte monoclonal antibody (anti-NCA-95 MAb) has been introduced as a new bone marrow imaging agent. To evaluate the usefulness of $^{99m}Tc$ anti-NCA MAb bone marrow scans for detecting skeletal metastasis, bone marrow scans of 44 malignant tumor patients were evaluated and compared with bone scan findings. Bone scan showed abnormal lesions in 26(59%) cases, and 18 of these patients also had an abnormal bone marrow scan. Seven of the 8 patients who had normal bone marrow scan despite bone scan lesions were confirmed to be free from metastasis. There was one case with a marrow defect despite normal bone scan but the presence of metastasis was not determined due to loss of follow up. Bone scan demonstrated a total of 64 lesions while bone marrow scan showed 38 lesions. Fifty percent (32/64) of the bone scan lesions had matching marrow defects while the remaining 50% did not. Most of these non matched lesions were suggested to be nonspecific lesions such as rib fractures or degenerative change. Meanwhile bone marrow scan was able to detect 6 new lesions not detected by bone scan, bit metastasis in each lesion was not confirmed. Bone marrow scan was also helpful in assessing equivocal bone scan lesions to be of metastatic nature in 10 patients by demonstrating a matched marrow defect. Thus $^{99m}Tc$ anti-NCA MAb bone marrow scan can help exclude metastasis in patients with nonspecific bone scan lesions and may be able to detect metastatic lesions not seen with bone scan. It appears useful as a complementary study to bone scan in evaluating malignant tumor patients.

• Journal of Periodontal and Implant Science
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• 제29권4호
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• pp.893-914
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• 1999

Tooth mobility may be the decisive factor that determines whether dental treatment of any kind is undertaken. Although tooth mobility in isolation says little in itself, the finding of increased tooth mobility is of both diagnostic and prognostic importance. Only the detection of an increase or decrease in mobility makes an evaluation possible. Thus prior to treatment, we must understand the pathologic process causing the observed the tooth mobility and decide whether the pattern and degree of observed tooth mobility is reversible or irreversible. And then it must be decided whether retention and treatment or extraction and replacement. The purpose of this study was to compare tooth mobility at different time period during root planing and flap operation and to relate changes in mobility to each treatment method. Twenty-one patients (287 teeth) with chronic adult periodontitis were treated with root planing(control group) and flap operation(experimental group), and each group was divided 3 subgroups based upon initial probing pocket depth (1-3mm, 4-6mm, 7mm and more). Tooth mobility was measured with $Periotest^{(R)}$ at the day of operation, 4 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, 8 weeks, 12 weeks after each treatment. Tooth mobility, attachment loss, radiographic bone loss, and bleeding on probing were measured at the day of operation, 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks after treatment. 1. In group initial probing depth was 1-3mm, tooth mobility had no significant difference after root planing and flap operation. 2 . In group initial probing depth was 4-6mm, 7mm and more, tooth mobility had decreased in 12 weeks after root planing(p<0.01). And the mobility had increased after flap operation(p<0.01) and was at peak in 1 week, and decreased at initial level in 4 weeks, below the initial level in 12 weeks(p<0.01). 3. In 1 week, significant difference in tooth mobility between control and experimental group was found(p<0.01) but, in 12 weeks no difference between two groups was found. 4. Change of immediate tooth mobility after treatment was more larger in deep pocket than in shallow one. In group with the same probing pocket depth, the change of tooth mobility in molar group was greater than that of premolar group. 5. Tooth mobility before treatment was more strongly correlated with radiographic bone loss (r=0.5325) than probing depth, attachment loss and bleeding on probing, in 12 weeks after treatment, was more strongly correlated with attachment loss($r^2$=0.4761) than probing depth and bleeding on probing. Evaluation of the treatment effect and the prognosis after root planing and flap operation were meaningful on tooth initial probing depth 4mm and more. After flap operation, evaluation of the prognosis should be performed at least in 4 weeks and in 12 weeks after treatment, no difference in tooth mobility between two groups was observed. Radiographic bone loss and attachment loss were good clinical indicators to evaluate tooth mobility.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2020

Purpose: Periodontal disease causes tooth loss and is associated with cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. The present study proposes using a deep learning-based object detection method to identify periodontally compromised teeth on digital panoramic radiographs. A faster regional convolutional neural network (faster R-CNN) which is a state-of-the-art deep detection network, was adapted from the natural image domain using a small annotated clinical data- set. Materials and Methods: In total, 100 digital panoramic radiographs of periodontally compromised patients were retrospectively collected from our hospital's information system and augmented. The periodontally compromised teeth found in each image were annotated by experts in periodontology to obtain the ground truth. The Keras library, which is written in Python, was used to train and test the model on a single NVidia 1080Ti GPU. The faster R-CNN model used a pretrained ResNet architecture. Results: The average precision rate of 0.81 demonstrated that there was a significant region of overlap between the predicted regions and the ground truth. The average recall rate of 0.80 showed that the periodontally compromised teeth regions generated by the detection method excluded healthiest teeth areas. In addition, the model achieved a sensitivity of 0.84, a specificity of 0.88 and an F-measure of 0.81. Conclusion: The faster R-CNN trained on a limited amount of labeled imaging data performed satisfactorily in detecting periodontally compromised teeth. The application of a faster R-CNN to assist in the detection of periodontally compromised teeth may reduce diagnostic effort by saving assessment time and allowing automated screening documentation.

• 치과방사선
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.363-373
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• 1995

The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare observer performance between conventional radiographs and their digitized images for the detection of bone loss in the bifurcation of mandiblar first molar. One dried human mandible with minimal periodontal bone loss around the first molar was selected and serially enlarged 17 step defects were prepared in the bifurcation area. The mandible was radiographed with exposure time of 0.12, 0.20, 0.25, 0.32, 0.40, 0.64 seconds, after each successive step in the preperation and all radiographs were digitized with IBM-PC/32 bit-Dx compatible, video camera (VM-S8200, Hitachi Co., Japan), and color monitor(Multisync 3D, NEC, Japan). Sylvia Image Capture Board for the ADC(analog to digital converter) was used. The obtained results were as follows: 1. In the conventional radiographs, the mean score of the readability was higher at the condition of exposure time with 0.32 second. Also, as the size of artificial lesion was increased, the readability of radiographs was elevated (P<0.05). 2. In the digital images, the mean score of the readability was higher at the condition of exposure time with 0.40 second. Also, as the size of artificial lesion was increased, the readability of digital images was elevated(P<0.05). 3. At the same exposure time, the mean scores of readibility were mostly higher in the digitized images. As the exposure time was increased, the digital images were superior to radiographs in readability. 4. As the size of lesion was changed, the digital images were superior to radiographs in detecting small lesion. 5. The coefficient of variation of mean score has no significant difference between digital images and radiographs.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.261-268
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• 2004

골다공증은 골 조직의 량이 감소하여 골절의 가능성이 증가하는 상태이다. 뼈의 전기적 특성은 골 밀도와 관련이 있으며, 특히 뼈의 절기 저항은 골 소실이 증가할수록 감소하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 만일 신뢰성 있는 측정이 가능하다면, 뼈의 전기적인 특성은 골다공증 진단을 위한 유용한 변수가 될 수 있음을 의미한다 본 연구에서는 EIT (electrical impedance tomography) 기술을 이용하여 뼈의 전기 전도도 평가를 시도하였다. 뼈와 주위의 연조직 간의 전기적인 특성의 차이가 크기 때문에 (100 정도), 일반적으로, 뼈의 EIT를 얻기는 쉽지 않다. 본 연구에서는 이상 경계 검출을 위해 개발된 adaptive mesh regeneration 기법을 이용하여, 주어진 경계면의 기하학적 조건하에서, 경계 내부의 전기전도도를 복원할 수 있도 록 하였다. 수치 해석은 균일한 타원형 (장경 17 mm, 단경 15 mm) 뼈와 주위의 연 조직으로 구성된 반경 40 mm인 원통형 팬텀으로 모의한 경골에 대해 수행하였다. 타원형 뼈는 팬텀의 원형 단면 중심에서 15 mm 위쪽에 위치하도록 하였다. 연 조직의 전기 전도도는 4 mS/cm로 고정하였고, 뼈에 대해서는 0.01 - 1 mS/cm에서 변하도록 하였다. 측정 오차에 의한 효과를 분석하기 위해 시뮬레이션은 측정 오차를 포함하도록 하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 만일 측정 오차가 5 % 미만으로 유지될 경우, 재구성된 뼈의 전기전도도는 10 % 이내의 오차를 갖는 것으로 나타났다. 예측할수 있듯이 복원의 정확도는 뼈의 전기 전도도가 증가함에 따라 증가하였다. 이것은 사용된 EIT가 골 소실이 진행된 뼈에 대한 좀더 정확한 정보를 제공할 수 있음을 시사한다. 본 연구는, 뼈의 해부학적인 정보를 알고 있을 때 뼈와 주위의 연조직에 대한 단순한 이상 영상에 한정된 결과를 제공하지만, EIT 기술이 골다공증 골절을 예측하는 새로운 방법으로 활용될 가능성을 시사한다.

• 대한치과보철학회지
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• 제36권6호
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• pp.900-913
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• 1998

임플란트 치과 임상에서, 협, 설측의 골조직 상태는 임플란트 재료의 높은 밀도 때문에 구내용 방사선사진으로는 파악할 수 없으나, 디지털 분석을 이용한 정량적 방사선 분석법을 사용하여 이 부위를 파악하고자 하였다. 건조 하악골에 10개의 직경 3.3mm인 solid screw형태의 $ITI^{(R)}$ 임플란트(Institute Straumann, Waldenberg, Switzerland)을 매식한 다음, 이들을 10개의 골 시편으로 절단한 후, 방사선사진 촬영을 시행했다. 일련의 중첩상을 얻기 위해, 특별히 고안된 방사선필름 고정기와 D속도 필름($Ultra-speed^{(R)}$, Kodak, USA)을 사용했으며, 고 해상도의 디지털 분석을 위해, 비디오카메라($Kodak-Eikonix^{TM}$, USA)로 필름을 scan하고 software(LaboImage, Computing Science Center, Geneva University)를 이용해 정량적 분석을 시행했다. 방사선 촬영은 4 방향(통상적인 periapical projection에 의한 근, 원심(MD)방향 및 협, 설(BL) 조사위, 통상적인 occlusal projection에 준한 25도 경사진 근, 원심(OMD) 및 25도 경사진 협, 설(OBL)조사위)으로 시행했으며, 각 시편에서 4장의 연속 중첩 방사선사진(superimposable radiograph)을 임플란트 매식공 천공 후, 임플란트 매식 후, 임플란트 주변(협,설) 골 손상 후, 임플란트 제거 후의 상황에서 표준화된 방법으로 촬영해서 얻었다. 기술적인 어려움에도 불구하고, occlusal projection으로 촬영하고, 이를 디지털 농도 분석한 방법에서. 치과 임플란트 주변 협, 설측의 미세골 변화를 파악할 수 있을 것으로 보였다. 특히, occlusal projection이 periapical projection에 비해 더욱 민감한 골 변화를 인지하는 것으로 나타났다. 비록 이 실험의 결과가 제한된 조건에서 얻어졌지만, 실제 임플란트 임상에서 임상가들에게 진단적 차원에서의 새로운 가능성과 다양성을 제시해 줄 수 있으리라 사료된다.

• 한국건강관리협회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.73-96
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• 2004

Along with a development of medical technology, a variety of tests, such as laboratory tests, x-ray and endoscopies are being used in health screening tests. As the tests determine the quality of health screening, test items and methods should be carefully selected. This study was to get hold of the test items of major health screening programs in Korea Most of the health screening programmes focused upon detection of risk factors and diagnosis of life - style related diseases (diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, hypercholesterolemia, overweight, drinking, smoking, cerebrovascular diseases, osteoporosis) ,cancers (stomach, cervix, lung, breast, liver, colon, prostate, ovary, pancreas, thyroid, esophagus) , infectious diseases (hepatitis, tuberculosis, sexually-transmitted diseases, parasites) , chronic obstructive respiratory diseases, chronic renal diseases (bacteriuria hematuria, proteinuria) , anemia, glaucoma, hearing loss, Alzheimer disease, stress, early psychiatric diseases. The health screening tests were basic physical examination, basic laboratory tests (CBC, urinalysis, liver function tests, lipid tests, glucose, HbAlc, uric acid, electrolytes, serological tests (HBsAg, HBs-Ab, HCV-Ab, HIV-Ab, VDRL) EKG, x-ray (chest PA, CT) , endoscopy (gastroscopy, colonoscopy) , sonography(abdomen, thyroid, pelvis, breast) ,cytology (cervix) , bone density, tumor markets (NMP22, alpha-FP, CEA, CA-19-9, CA12S, PSA) and eye tests. Advanced technologies, like CT, PET, MRI, MRT/Angio, molecular testings) were widely used in hospital health screening programmes .In summary, a variety of tests were utilized in health screening in Korea. Those tests were utilized by stages or according to sex and age in most of health screening programmes, however a few program used tests to excess disregarding health screening subjects.