A influência da espessura óssea na medição da altura da borda alveolar em imagens de tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico e espiral

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Rédua, Renato Barcellos
• Orientador(a): Artese, Flavia Raposo Gebara
• Banca de defesa: Almeida, Marco Antonio de Oliveira , Capelli Júnior, Jonas , Brandão, Roberto Carlos Bodart
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Odontologia
• Departamento: Centro Biomédico::Faculdade de Odontologia
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Diagnóstico por imagem; Imagem tridimensional; Perda óssea alveolar; Periodonto; Tomografia computadorizada espiral; Tomografia computadorizada de feixe cônico
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Alveolar bone loss; Cone-beam computed tomography; Diagnostic imaging; Periodontium; Spiral computed tomography; Three-dimensional imaging
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::ODONTOLOGIA::ORTODONTIA
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/14145

Computerized tomogoraphy (CT) images allow for visualization, with no distortions or superimpostions, of the maxillo-facial complex, especially of the alveolar margins. Studies have demonstrated good reproducibility and precision of the alveolar bone height, however the influence of bone thickness is still scarcely described. The purpose of this study was, by comparing the direct measurement of alveolar bone height, to evaluate the precision, reproducibility and the influence of bone thickness on the same measurement in cone beam CT (CBCT) and spiral CT (SCT) volumetric and biplane images. Ten dry human mandibles, with a total of 57 anterior teeth were tomographed with an iCAT (Imaging Science International, Hatfield, PA, EUA) and a 64 channels Brilliance 64 tomograph (Philips Eletronics, Eindhoven, Holland), both using voxels of 0.25 mm. Alveolar bone height was measured on volumetric (3D) and bidimensional (2D) images of tomograms and compared with direct caliper measurements performed on the dry mandibles, on the buccal and lingual sides, by three raters in a total of 114 measurements. High intra-rater (0.999 a 0.902) and inter-rater (0.998 e 0.868) reproducibility was observed using the intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC). A high correlation was also observed between the direct and indirect measurements of alveolar bone height in 2D (r=0.923** e 0.916**), and 3D images (r=0.929** e 0.954*), for CBCT and SCT, respectively. Two-dimensional images overestimate alveolar bone height in 0.32 and 0.49 mm and 3D images in 0.34 and 0.30 mm, for CBCT and SCT, respectively. When alveolar bone thickness is at least 0.6 mm the mean difference is of 0.16 and 0.28 mm in 2D images and of 0.12 and 0.03 mm in 3D images for CBCT and SCT, respectively, with 95% limits of agreement ranging from -0.46 to 0.79 mm and -0.32 to 0.88 mm in 2D images, and of -0.64 to 0.67 mm and -0.57 to 0.62 mm in 3D images, for CBCT and SCT, respectively. When alveolar bone thickness is smaller than 0.6 mm CT evaluation is inaccurate, since 95% limits of agreement vary from -1.74 to 5.42 mm and -1.64 to 5.42 mm in 2D images, and from -3.70 to 4.28 mm and -3.49 to 4.25 mm on 3D images, for CBCT and SCT, respectively. It can be concluded that measurement of alveolar bone height on CT images presents high reproducibility. When alveolar bone thickness is greater than 0.6 mm measurement precision is high, and when this thickness is less than 0.6 mm the technique is inaccurate