Numerical Analysis of Microwear Morphology of Tooth Surface

Tooth wear was characterized by microscopic image in general cases. There was little work focusing on the numerical analysis of the morphology of tooth wear. In this work, white-light confocal profiler, Slarmap Universal and Tooth-Frax were employed for numerical analysis of tooth wear morphology to establish scale-sensitive fractal analysis curve. The results showed that there was a relationship between tooth wear morphology and scale-sensitive fractal analysis curve for further building digital signals. A main purpose of this work was to provide theoretical basis and technical support for developing tooth surface sensor to monitor tooth wear dynamically.