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Canines' Laser Doppler Measured Pulp Blood Perfusion Mean Values

Objectives: Laser Doppler flowmetry is a modern objective non-invasive method for blood flow assessment. The aim of this study is to measure, calculate and compare the mean values of pulp blood perfusion for vital canines.
Methods: The pulp blood perfusion of canines was monitored and measured by laser doppler flowmetry device. Teeth, included in this study, were only vital, with no carious or other lesions, trauma and restorations. The measurements were done for at least three minutes monitoring and recording through hard dental tissues by using needle probes, fixed at the vestibular tooth surface. The pulp perfusion mean values were calculated for every tooth for a period of one minute by the licensed software of the device. The received data was statistically analyzed.
Results: The total number of monitored and measured vital canines was 106. The maxillary canines included into this research were 57 and mandibular canines were 49, left canines were 50 and right were 56. The volunteers’ mean age was 24,7 years. The calculated mean value for all canines was 16,2 PU, for lower canines it was 16,6 PU and for upper canines it was 15,8 PU. The mean value for left canines was 14,8 PU, and 17,4 PU for right canines. The mean value for female canines was 17,2 PU and 14,2 PU for male canines. There was no statistically significant difference between mean values of male and female canines neither for maxillary nor for mandibular jaw (p>0,05); no statistically significant difference was found between the left and right canines (p>0,05).
Conclusions: When objective, precise and noninvasive assessment of dental pulp status of canines is needed in order to take the best decision for optimal clinical treatment or scientific research, the determined laser Doppler blood perfusion mean values of the investigated canines could be taken in consideration.

2021 Continental European and Scandinavian Divisions Meeting (Brussels, Belgium, Hybrid)
Brussels, Belgium, Hybrid
2021
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Pulp Biology & Regeneration Research
  • Stefanova, Vesela  ( Medical University of Plovdiv , Plovdiv , Bulgaria )
  • Simeonov, Nikolay  ( Medical University of Plovdiv , Plovdiv , Bulgaria )
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    Oral Session VIRTUAL
    Pulp biology & regeneration