Clinical Research & Studies

The following research illustrate the use and impact of InnerView^® to evaluate mobility and structural breakdown for teeth and implants.

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Implant Studies

Natural tooth intrusion and reversal in implant-assisted prosthesis: evidence of and a hypothesis for the occurrence

Sheets CG, Earthmann JC 
J Prosthet Dent, 1993 Dec

Novel instrumentation for quantitative determination of energy damping in materials and structures

Brenner DA, Earthman JC Scripta
Metallurgica et Materialia, 1994 Aug 15

Novel instrumentation for rapid assessment of internal damage in composite materials

Stanley, B. D., Bustemante, L., Earthman, James C
Nondestructive Evaluation and Material Properties III.

Tooth intrusion in implant-assisted prostheses

Sheets CG, Earthman JC
J Prosthet Dent, 1997 Jan

Mechanical Biocompatibility of Dental Implant Materials

Barzin, A, Sheets, Cherilyn G, Earthman, James C Proceedings to the Fourth Pacific Rim Internatonal Conference on Materials, Japanese Institute of Metals, 2002

Reconstructive materials and bone tissue engineering in implant dentistry

Earthman JC, Li Y, VanSchoiack LR, Sheets CG, Wu JC Dent Clin North Am, 2006 Apr

Instrumentation for Determining the Local Damping Capacity in Honeycomb Sandwich Composites

Lincoln J, Rieger L, Earthman J
Journal of Testing and Evaluation, 2006 May 1

Effect of bone density on the damping behavior of dental implants: An in vitro method

VanSchoiack LR, Wu JC, Sheets CG, Earthman JC Materials Science and Engineering: C, 2006 Sep 1

Visualization of osseointegration of maxilla and mandible dental implants

Meyer J, Sheets CG, Earthman JC
 Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg, 2009 Apr

Visualization of osseointegration of maxilla and mandible dental implants

Meyer J, Sheets CG, Earthman JC Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg, 2010 Jan

Assessment of the primary stability of dental implants in artificial bone using resonance frequency and percussion analyses

Ahmad OK, Kelly JR
 Int J Oral Maxillofac Implants, 2013

Damping behavior of implant-supported restorations

Magne P, Silva M, Oderich E, Boff LL, Enciso R Clin Oral Implants Res, 2011

Analysis of percussion response of dental implants in an in vitro study

Dinh A, Sheets CG, Earthman JC Materials Science and Engineering, May 2013

In Vivo Evaluation of Quantitative Percussion Diagnostics for Determining Implant Stability

VanSchoiack LR, Shubayev VI, Myers RR, Sheets CG, Earthman JC
J Oral Maxillofac Implants. Accepted for Publication.

Quantitative percussion diagnostics and bone density analysis of the implant-bone interfaces in a pre- and postmortem human subject

Sheets CG, Hui DD, Bajaj V, Earthman JC
 J Oral Maxillofac Implants, 2013

Development of Percussion Diagnostics in Evaluating ‘Kiss’ Bonds Between Composite Laminates

Poveromo SL, Earthman JC In: Sano T, Srivatsan TS, Peretti MW, editors. Advanced Composites for Aerospace, Marine, and Land Applications [Internet]. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016 [cited 2024 Aug 22]. p. 213–29. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48096-1_18

Crack Detection

The publications refer to prospective technologies currently under clinical evaluation. Some claims have not yet been cleared by the FDA

Definitive diagnosis of early enamel and dentin cracks based on microscopic evaluation

Clark DJ, Sheets CG, Paquette JM
 J Esthet Restor Dent, 2003

An in vitro comparison of quantitative percussion diagnostics with a standard technique for determining the presence of cracks in natural teeth

Sheets CG, Stewart DL, Wu JC,
Earthman JC J Prosthet Dent, 2014 Aug

In vivo study of the effectiveness of quantitative percussion diagnostics as an indicator of the level of the structural pathology of teeth

Sheets CG, Wu JC, Rashad S, Phelan M, Earthman JC
J Prosthet Dent, 2016 Aug

In vivo study of the effectiveness of quantitative percussion diagnostics as an indicator of the level of structural pathology of teeth after restoration

Sheets CG, Wu JC, Rashad S, Phelan M, Earthman JC
J Prosthet Dent, 2017 Feb

Quantitative percussion diagnostics as an indicator of the level of the structural pathology of teeth: Retrospective follow-up investigation of high-risk sites that remained pathological after restorative treatment

Sheets CG, Wu JC, Earthman JC 
J Prosthet Dent, 2018 Jun

Periometer as an Adjunctive Tool for the Diagnosis of Vertical Root Fractures: Report of Two Cases

Chittaphong L, Oswald C, Thomson KA, Vahabi S, Levy T Submitted to peer reviewed Endodontic Journal

Ten-year retrospective study of the effectiveness of quantitative percussion diagnostics as an indicator of the level of structural pathology in teeth

Sheets CG, Zhang L, Wu JC, Earthman JC
J Prosthet Dent, 2020 May

Development of Percussion Diagnostics in Evaluating 'Kiss' Bonds between Composite Laminates

S. Poveromo, D. Malcom, and J. Earthman In: Advanced Composites for Aerospace, Marine, and Land Applications part 1. Edited by T. Sano, T.S. Srivatsan, and M. W. Peretti. TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society)

Finite Element Analysis of Quantitative Percussion Diagnostics for Evaluating the Strength of Bonds Between Composite Laminates

S. Poveromo, D. Malcom, and J. Earthman In: Advanced Composites for Aerospace, Marine, and Land Applications part 2. Edited by T. Sano and T.S. Srivatsan. TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society)