Viabilização da técnica de transiluminação para avaliação da anatomia, alterações patológicas e presença de materiais em dentes

Abstract

The propose of this work is to demonstrate the feasibility of the technique of transillumination to capture digital images through a resin with metal pins placed on its surface and images generated from dental elements. In addition has been made on the basis of mathematical processing transformed rapidly from Fourier. For the generation of images were used sources of laser and led with a wavelength ranging from visible to infrared. The analysis of the images showed that images formed with higher led the images were formed with laser and the blue not presented sufficient contrast independent of the source of illumination. The results showed that the use of Lasers not succeeded because of diffraction of light by pins and the interference between the laser radiation, which caused images with low resolution. However, using the source of led, it was possible to define the morphology of pins in the resin. In conclusion we note that the effects of optical absorption and scattering of light by the resin and the tooth, the diffraction of light by pins and interference of light were consistent factors of greater influence for the analysis of images.