Dental computing and applications: advanced techniques for clinical dentistry

Andriani Daskalaki, Andriani Daskalaki1605662925, 9781605662923, 1605662933, 9781605662930

Over the last 40 years, dental informatics has implemented numerous technological advancements and discoveries to become a medical research discipline of significant scale and scope.
Dental Computing and Applications: Advanced Techniques for Clinical Dentistry presents the latest technological applications and advanced research findings of computing in clinical dentistry. This book leads students and advanced researchers to an understanding of current ideas in the analysis of dental data and provides an overview on searching for evidence-based medical and dental information on the Web.

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Table of contents :
Title……Page 2
Editorial Advisory Board……Page 4
Table of Contents……Page 5
Detailed Table of Contents……Page 9
Foreword……Page 17
Preface……Page 19
Acknowledgment……Page 22
Software Support for Advanced Cephalometric Analysis in Orthodontics……Page 24
A New Software Environment for 3D-Time Series Analysis……Page 51
Relationship Between Shrinkage and Stress……Page 68
An Objective Registration Method for Mandible Alignment……Page 88
Requirements for a Universal Image Analysis Tool in Dentistry and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery……Page 102
Denoising and Contrast Enhancement in Dental Radiography……Page 113
3D Reconstructions from Few Projections in Oral Radiology……Page 131
Advances and Trends in Tissue Engineering of Teeth……Page 146
Automated Bacterial Colony Counting for Clonogenic Assay……Page 157
A New System in GuidedSurgery: The Flatguide™ System……Page 170
Visualization and Modelling in Dental Implantology……Page 182
Finite Element Analysis and its Application in Dental Implant Research……Page 193
Electronic Oral Health Records in Practice and Research……Page 214
Haptic-Based Virtual Reality Dental Simulator as an Educational Tool……Page 242
Digital Library for Dental Biomaterials……Page 255
Rapid Prototyping and Dental Applications……Page 296
Unicode Characters for Human Dentition: New Foundation for Standardized Data Exchange and Notation in Countries Employing Double-Byte Character Sets……Page 328
Virtual Dental Patient: A 3D Oral Cavity Model and its Use in Haptics-Based Virtual Reality Cavity Preparation in Endodontics……Page 340
Compilation of References……Page 360
About the Contributors……Page 393
Index……Page 401