Evaluation of intraoral CCD camera for dental examination in forensic inspection

Assessment of the Use of an Intra-Oral Camera for Epidemiological Caries Research

“…The high sensitivity and specificity seen despite additional decayed surfaces observed on photographic examination could be attributed to high level of agreement on surfaces that were not carious which constituted about 75% of the surfaces observed. A test is considered to be accurate when the sum of the sensitivity and specificity is 160 or more [23]. For both the examiners this sum was more than 175.…”

New Device for Collecting Intra-oral Findings of Unknown Body

“…However, imaging using a conventional camera requires some technical ability, and the extent of imaging itself is limited, particularly in cases where mouth-opening is limited. We have previously proposed the use of small scanners and CCD cameras for obtaining dental findings in cases where mouth-opening is limited 5) . However, most of the commercially available CCD cameras are models with cords and a separate monitor, and are certainly quite expensive.…”

“…Dental evidence plays a very important role in the identification of unknown bodies, and a lot of cases and new technologies have been reported in this field [1][2][3][4][5][6] . Information technology (IT) has developed remarkably in recent years, and is now being applied widely in many fields.…”

Collection of intraoral findings in corpse with small-scale color dental scanner system

“…Taking images using a dental CCD camera does not require maximum jaw opening. However, this approach takes time as images of every tooth are required and image composition is necessary to obtain images of rows of teeth [4]. With this new device, only approximately 10 mm of jaw opening is required to allow the image-capture device to be inserted into the mouth and a wide range of intraoral images to be taken.…”