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Multifractal spectrum and lacunarity as measures of complexity of osseointegration
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2016-07Registro en:
de Souza Santos, Daniel; Cavalcanti Bezerra dos Santos, Leonardo; de Albuquerque Tavares Carvalho, Alessandra; Carneiro Leão, Jair; Delrieux, Claudio Augusto; et al.; Multifractal spectrum and lacunarity as measures of complexity of osseointegration; Springer Heidelberg; Clinical Oral Investigations.; 20; 6; 7-2016; 1271-1278
1432-6981
1436-3771
CONICET Digital
CONICET
Autor
de Souza Santos, Daniel
Cavalcanti Bezerra dos Santos, Leonardo
de Albuquerque Tavares Carvalho, Alessandra
Carneiro Leão, Jair
Delrieux, Claudio Augusto
Stosic, Tatijana
Stosic, Borko
Resumen
Objectives: The goal of this study is to contribute to a better quantitative description of the early stages of osseointegration, by application of fractal, multifractal, and lacunarity analysis. Materials and methods: Fractal, multifractal, and lacunarity analysis are performed on scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images of titanium implants that were first subjected to different treatment combinations of i) sand blasting, ii) acid etching, and iii) exposition to calcium phosphate, and were then submersed in a simulated body fluid (SBF) for 30 days. All the three numerical techniques are applied to the implant SEM images before and after SBF immersion, in order to provide a comprehensive set of common quantitative descriptors. Results: It is found that implants subjected to different physicochemical treatments before submersion in SBF exhibit a rather similar level of complexity, while the great variety of crystal forms after SBF submersion reveals rather different quantitative measures (reflecting complexity), for different treatments. In particular, it is found that acid treatment, in most combinations with the other considered treatments, leads to a higher fractal dimension (more uniform distribution of crystals), lower lacunarity (lesser variation in gap sizes), and narrowing of the multifractal spectrum (smaller fluctuations on different scales). Conclusion: The current quantitative description has shown the capacity to capture the main features of complex images of implant surfaces, for several different treatments. Such quantitative description should provide a fundamental tool for future large scale systematic studies, considering the large variety of possible implant treatments and their combinations. Clinical relevance: Quantitative description of early stages of osseointegration on titanium implants with different treatments should help develop a better understanding of this phenomenon, in general, and provide basis for further systematic experimental studies. Clinical practice should benefit from such studies in the long term, by more ready access to implants of higher quality.