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Effect of different intracanal posts and exposure parameters on detection of vertical root fractures by cone-beam
Abbas Shokri1, Amir Eskandarloo2, Foozie Zahedi2
1Dental Implants Research Center, Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology Department, Hamadan University of Medical Science, Hamadan, Iran.
Abstract:
This study evaluated the effect of different amperage values and voxel sizes of two CBCT scanners on VRF detection in the presence of different intracanal posts. After post-space preparation, VRFs were induced in half of the samples of 20 maxillary premolars. Five different intracanal posts were passively placed in each root canal. Samples were scanned using CS 9300 and Cranex3D with two different voxel sizes and amperage setting in each unit. The diagnostic sensitivity, specificity and accuracy were compared using the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests (α = 0.05). Changes in amperage and voxel size did not affect the detection of VRFs (p ⟩ 0.05). The VRF detection accuracy was the highest in fibreglass and the lowest in nickel-chromium group. Changes in amperage and voxel size within assessed values do not seem to influence the detection of VRF whereas different intracanal post-materials have significant effect on VRF detection.
