Digital versus plaster study models: How accurate and reproducible are they?

Journal of Orthodontics

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 151-159

  Abizadeh, Neilufar ^a,b   Moles, David R ^a   O'Neill, Julian ^b   Noar, Joseph H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KETTERING GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Digital study models; Orthodontic study models; Reliability; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DENTAL PROCEDURE; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; HISTORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALOCCLUSION; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODONTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TOOTH OCCLUSION; VALIDATION STUDY;

CALCIUM SULFATE; CEPHALOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DENTAL MODELS; DENTAL OCCLUSION; DIMENSIONAL MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALOCCLUSION; OBSERVER VARIATION; ODONTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84870225787     PISSN: 14653125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1465312512Z.00000000023     Document Type: Article

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