Research Article

Sensing of Tooth Microleakage Based on Dental Optical Coherence Tomography

Table 1

Comparison of secondary caries detection methods.

MethodsTypeDescriptions

Radiography [18ā€“20]In vivo (1) Limited spatial resolution
(2) Radioactive

Dental probe [21]In vivo (1) Limited spatial resolution
(2) No image

Dental computed tomography [9]In vivo (1) Limited spatial resolution
(2) Radioactive
(3) Expensive

Laser fluorescence spectrometer [22, 23]In vitro (1) In vitro experiment
(2) Biomarker is necessary

SS-OCT [17]In vivo (1) High space resolution
(2) Real-time images
(3) Nonradioactive
(4) Dental probe was developed
(5) 3D image reconstruction is available