Dens, Christopher2010-05-212010-05-212010-04-21https://hdl.handle.net/11299/62362Additional contributors: Alex Fok; Jian Ying Li; Jin Woo Jung; William H. Douglas; Maria R. Pintado (faculty mentor)Dental students currently learn the internal anatomy of the dentition by looking at different cross-sections that have been sliced from the teeth. This helps them get a general idea of what is inside, but some of the intricacies of the canals and other minute structures are not observable from a single slice. By using a Micro-CT scanner we were able to digitize teeth in their entirety with great detail, revealing some of the structures that single slices missed. The 3-D visualization software that is available today combined with the data we collected will make learning and understanding the internal anatomy of the teeth much easier and will reveal structures that were extremely difficult to observe before.en-USInstitute of TechnologyAcademic Health CenterSchool of DentistryDepartment of Restorative SciencesMinnesota Dental Research Center for Biomaterials and BiomechanicsCapturing the Internal Anatomy of the Dentition for Tooth ExplorerPresentation