Composite resins are developed as restorative materials to improve esthetics and mechanical properties. To improve the physical properties of resin material, resin filler have to be added. However, no imaging method is adopted for resin filler distribution. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a optical imaging technique to delineate microscopic structures within biological tissue. The OCT application to dental composites resin and its filler is not described yet. So, this new and advanced optical method is needed for clinical application for evaluation of dental composite resin. To analyze the spatial distribution of dental composite resin and to evaluate the resin restoration in cavity, frequency domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT) was used for their analysis. Resin restored tooth was prepared. For morphological observation, serially sectioned teeth, conventional X-ray taking and micro computed-tomography (CT) images were compared with OCT images. The experiment has done to evaluate the success of the resin restoration using 3 dimensional structure OCT image. In this research, OCT is evaluated as a new technique to image resin restoration. The evaluation of resin restored tooth was performed by OCT. Inappropriate restoration such as marginal adaptation, large porosities, internal integrity and poor contour could be detected. Resin filler also could be checked by OCT. The distribution, number, regularity and size of resin filler can be differentiated from several commercial products. Considering the characteristics of the OCT, it can be used to evaluate the defects of resin restoration, resin filler distribution, and internal integrity between resin material and tooth structure. The OCT can be considered to be a new and advanced method for the evaluation of resin restorations.

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)는 광 산란과 간섭 현상을 이용하여 비침습적으로 생체조직의 표면 및 내부 구조를 이미지화 할 수 있는 영상기술이다. OCT 기술은 질병의 조기진단과 같은 의료 분야에서 활발히 활용되어 왔으나 미용을 위한 피부진단으로의 적용은 아직 초기단계라 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 OCT 를 피부효능평가에 도입하여 피부결 및 주름 평가에 활용 가능성을 살펴보았다. 모사판(replica)을 대상으로 한 평가에서 PRIMOS와 유사한 패턴을 보여 주었고 주름을 모사한 3차원 모델을 이용한 평가에서는 PRIMOS에 비해 측정각에 따른 오차가 적음을 확인할 수 있었다. 그리고 커버력 화장품을 이용한 사용 전후의 평가에 있어 서도 이를 구분할 정도의 해상도를 보였다. 이러한 평가를 통해 OCT의 미세주름평가에서의 가능성을 알 수 있 었고 향후 더 구체화된 연구를 통해 그 활용가능성에 대한 신뢰도를 높일 예정이다.