Abdillah Imron Nasution, Mikhail Nikolaevich Pankov
This review aimed to review the application of infrared thermography in dentistry and describe how inflammation makes treatment more effective. One of the methods whose working principle is by determining the thermal pattern characteristics is Infrared Thermography. Infrared thermography has a connected role within the assessment of inflammation. Inflammation signs are known as symptom of many infectious diseases, injury or related tissues, neurodegenerative diseases, and cancer. Literature were searched in all databases such as PubMed, Medline, and Google Search for articles published between 1979 and 2019. By means of a systematic online database search and based on the PRISMA guidelines related to word infrared thermography, dentistry, inflammation articles were identified using the search engines PubMed, Medline, and Google Scholar. After screening the abstracts and applying the eligibility criteria on those which were fully accessible, 62 articles were included in the review. 692 studies were excluded due to the defined inclusion and exclusion criteria and 62 studies have finally been included in the evaluation process. This was followed by an analysis and discussion of the methodology. © 2020 University of Dicle.
Syiah Kuala University, Faculty of Dentistry, Banda Aceh, Indonesia; Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation; Institute of Biomedical Research, Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation
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