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An Optical System to Monitor the Displacement Field of Glass-fibre Posts Subjected to Thermal Loading
Massimo Corsalini1, Francesco Pettini1, Daniela Di Venere1, Andrea Ballini2, Giuseppe Chiatante3, Luciano Lamberti4, Carmine Pappalettere4, Michele Fiorentino4, Antonio E. Uva4, Giuseppe Monno4, Antonio Boccaccio4, *
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2016Volume: 10
First Page: 610
Last Page: 618
Publisher ID: TODENTJ-10-610
DOI: 10.2174/1874210601610010610
Article History:
Received Date: 26/07/2016Revision Received Date: 04/10/2016
Acceptance Date: 17/10/2016
Electronic publication date: 16/11/2016
Collection year: 2016
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Endocanalar posts are necessary to build up and retain coronal restorations but they do not reinforce dental roots. It was observed that the dislodgement of post-retained restorations commonly occurs after several years of function and long-term retention may be influenced by various factors such as temperature changes. Temperature changes, in fact, produce micrometric deformations of post and surrounding tissues/materials that may generate high stress concentrations at the interface thus leading to failure.
In this study we present an optical system based on the projection moiré technique that has been utilized to monitor the displacement field of endocanalar glass-fibre posts subjected to temperature changes.
Measurements were performed on forty samples and the average displacement values registered at the apical and middle region were determined for six different temperature levels. A total of 480 displacement measurements was hence performed.
The values of the standard deviation computed for each of the tested temperatures over the forty samples appear reasonably small which proves the robustness and the reliability of the proposed optical technique. The possible implications for the use of the system in the applicative context were discussed.
