Dentistry Support Ultrasonic System for Root Canal Treatment Aided by Fuzzy Logic

This paper describes a dentistry support system for root canal treatment using ultrasonic. Presently, no complete method of root canal treatment has proposed. Dentist empirically removes the dental pulp using measures of length of root canal. Therefore, the support system for root canal treatment is required to precisely remove the dental pulp. This paper solves the problem in root canal treatment by our ultrasonic device and fuzzy logic techniques. We determine the dentin-dental pulp junction by calculating two fuzzy degrees of amplitude of the echo and approximate distance of the surface and the junction. As the result, our system can determine the thickness of dental pulp within error of 0.289 mm.