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Measurement of Gingival Swelling from Dental Casts by Generation of a Moire Pattern with Laser Light

Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, Karolinska Institute, Box 4064, S-141 04 Huddinge, Sweden

C. Jon-And

Department of Photography, Huddinge University Hospital C2-48, S-141 86 Huddinge

N. Abramson

Department of Production Engineering, Industrial Metrology, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm

L. Olsson

Swedish Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Box 5604, S-114 86 Stockholm

L. Frithiof

Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, Karolinska Institute, Box 4064, S-141 04 Huddinge, Sweden

P.-Ö. Soder

Department of Periodontology, School of Dentistry, Karolinska Institute, Box 4064, S-141 04 Huddinge, Sweden

I. Dirtoft

Department of Production Engineering, Industrial Metrology, The Royal Institute of Technology, S-100 44 Stockholm

The aim of the study was to develop a sensitive measuring method enabling direct evaluation of gingival swelling to be made as registered on dental casts. On two separate occasions, when different degrees of severity of gingival inflammation were present in the same subject, reversible hydrocolloid impressions were taken of the mandible. The casts obtained were located successively in identical three-dimensional relationships in a field of interference fringes generated by two intersecting beams of collimated helium-neon laser light, and were photographed. The evaluation of the moiré pattern obtained directly by superimposition of the two images of the surface studied indicated that a decrease in gingival height of 0.38 mm in the direction of the camera had occurred between the two occasions. The use of a computer-based image-processing system considerably improved the visibility of the pattern. The reproducibility of the impression technique, as well as the relocation and superimposing techniques, proved satisfactory at the moiré resolution used (0.19 mm). The method has potential application in clinical experimental research, and therefore warrants further evaluation.

Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 67, No. 8, 1118-1121 (1988)
DOI: 10.1177/00220345880670081101


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