Publications by authors named "Yuchun Sun"

Objective: To quantitatively evaluate the accuracy of data obtained from liquid-interference surfaces using an intraoral 3D scanner (IOS) integrated with a compressed airflow system, so as to provide clinical proof of accuracy for the application of the compressed airflow system-based scanning head in improving data quality on liquid-interference surfaces.

Methods: The study selected a standard model as the scanning object, adhering to the "YY/T 1818-2022 Dental Science Intraoral Digital Impression Scanner" guidelines, a standard that defined parameters for intraoral scanning. To establish a baseline for accuracy, the ATOS Q 12M scanner, known for its high precision, was used to generate true reference values.

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Background: After the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, no studies on bacterial and atypical pathogens were conducted in primary care. We aimed to describe the etiological composition of acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) presenting to primary care with limited resources after the pandemic.

Methods: 1958 adult patients with ARTIs from 17 primary care clinics were recruited prospectively from January 2024 to March 2024.

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  • A study monitored 61 volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from three pharmaceutical companies in Shandong Province, establishing their emission profiles and measuring their potential impact on ozone formation.
  • Average total VOC emissions varied widely, with organized emissions ranging from 6,055.46 to 10,700.10 μg/m and unorganized emissions from 3,665.65 to 6,616.03 μg/m; halogenated hydrocarbons dominated organized emissions while OVOCs were predominant in unorganized emissions.
  • The treatment facilities showed varying efficiencies, with halogenated hydrocarbons being the least effectively treated; total annual emissions were reported between 1.16 to 3.66 tons, with the highest OVOCs
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Periodontitis is a severe gum infection characterized by inflammation of the tissues surrounding the teeth. The disease is challenging to manage due to its exposure to a wet and dynamic oral environment, where conventional hydrogels often suffer from weak adhesion, short residence time, and vulnerability to bacterial invasion. In this study, an innovative hydrogel system based on in situ light curing is proposed.

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Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of guiding plane preparation for removable partial dentures (RPDs) using 3D-printed templates compared to the freehand method.

Materials And Methods: Twenty partially edentulous patients requiring RPDs were randomly divided into two groups: the template-aided group (n = 10) and the freehand group (n = 10). Fifty-six guiding planes were prepared by a single clinician using two different methods.

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Purpose: To explore the clinical application of one-piece polyetheretherketone (PEEK) removable partial dentures (RPDs) fabricated using a novel digital workflow and to evaluate their weights and fits in vivo and patient satisfaction.

Materials And Methods: Fifteen cases with posterior partially edentulous situations were selected, and each patient received two types of RPDs, including a novel digital workflow (test group) and a conventional workflow (control group). For the test group, one-piece RPDs were designed through three-dimensional (3D) methods by scanning stone casts and fabricated by milling PEEK discs.

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This article presents a digital technique to construct a virtual occlusion in the maximal intercuspal position (MIP), considering physiological tooth displacement and reducing intermesh penetrations between occlusal surfaces, in order to design more precise and accurate occlusal contacts of a posterior full crown.

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Zirconium-based metallic glasses (Zr-MGs) are demonstrated to exhibit high mechanical strength, low elastic modulus and excellent biocompatibility, making them promising materials for endosseous implants. Meanwhile, tantalum (Ta) is also well known for its ideal corrosion resistance and biological effects. However, the metal has an elastic modulus as high as 186 GPa which is not comparable to the natural bone (10-30 GPa), and it also has a relative high cost.

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Background And Objective: Complete denture is a common restorative treatment in dental patients and the design of the core components (major connector and retentive mesh) of complete denture metal base (CDMB) is the basis of successful restoration. However, the automated design process of CDMB has become a challenging task primarily due to the complexity of manual interaction, low personalization, and low design accuracy.

Methods: To solve the existing problems, we develop a computer-aided Segmentation Network-driven CDMB design framework, called CDMB-SegNet, to automatically generate personalized digital design boundaries for complete dentures of edentulous patients.

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  • - A study was conducted to create a better method for evaluating the accuracy of 3D-printed dental models, aiming to guide dental practitioners in choosing the right printer.
  • - Researchers designed a specialized dental model with numerous measurable features and tested six different 3D printers, measuring linear dimensions and 3D errors like flatness and parallelism.
  • - Results showed the Objet30 Pro printer produced the most accurate models, with minimal deviations, highlighting variations in deformation patterns across different printers.
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Objective: This study aimed to present three indicators that represent the proximal contact area gap change under intercuspal occlusion and to see if and how these indicators influence food impaction with tight proximal contact.

Materials And Methods: Ninety volunteers were recruited for bite force measurement and intraoral scanning. Three-dimensional surface data and buccal bite data were obtained for 60 impacted and 60 non-impacted teeth.

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Grading laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma (LSCC) based on histopathological images is a clinically significant yet challenging task. However, more low-effect background semantic information appeared in the feature maps, feature channels, and class activation maps, which caused a serious impact on the accuracy and interpretability of LSCC grading. While the traditional transformer block makes extensive use of parameter attention, the model overlearns the low-effect background semantic information, resulting in ineffectively reducing the proportion of background semantics.

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Background: In clinical practice, control of the marginal fit of fixed dental prostheses is hindered by evaluation method, which needs to be further improved to increase its clinical applicability. This study aimed to quantitatively analyze the absolute marginal discrepancy of three-unit ceramic fixed dental prostheses fabricated by conventional and digital technologies using a digital measurement method based on the digital impression technology and open source software.

Methods: A digital workflow and the conventional impression combined with the lost-wax heat-pressed technique were adopted to separately fabricate 10 glass ceramic fixed dental prostheses.

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Objectives: This study aimed to develop a structured light scanning system with a planar mirror to enhance the digital full-arch implant impression accuracy and to compare it with photogrammetry and intraoral scanner methods.

Materials And Methods: An edentulous maxillary stone cast with six scan bodies was scanned as the reference model using a laboratory scanner. Three scanning modalities were compared (n = 10): (1) self-developed structured light scanning with a mirror (SSLS); (2) intraoral scanner (IOS); and (3) photogrammetry system (PG).

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In severe service environments, the presence of high local residual stress, significant organizational gradient, and nonlinear changes in material properties often leads to stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in dissimilar metal welded (DMW) joints. To accurately predict the crack growth rate, researching the initiation and propagation behavior of SCC cracks in DMW joints under residual stress (RS) is one of the most important methods to ensure the safe operation of nuclear power plants. Using the extended finite element method (XFEM), the crack propagation behaviors in DMW joints under different RS states are predicted and compared.

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Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) undergo substantial photochemical losses during their transport from emission sources to receptor sites, resulting in serious implications for their source apportionment and ozone (O) formation. Based on the continuous measurements of VOCs in suburban Jinan in August 2022, the effects of photochemical losses on VOC source contributions and O formation were evaluated in this study. The observed and initial concentrations of total VOCs (TVOC) were 12.

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Bone substitute material implantation has become an important treatment strategy for the repair of oral and maxillofacial bone defects. Recent studies have shown that appropriate inflammatory and immune cells are essential factors in the process of osteoinduction of bone substitute materials. Previous studies have mainly focused on innate immune cells such as macrophages.

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Statement Of Problem: Studies that have used digital methods to quantitatively evaluate physiological tooth displacement under occlusal force are sparse.

Purpose: The purpose of this clinical study was to measure physiological posterior tooth displacement under occlusal force by intraoral scanning and reverse engineering technology by using implants as the reference.

Material And Methods: A total of 14 participants received 15 implant-supported single mandibular first molar crowns.

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The present study aimed to predict the envelope surfaces from facial morphology. Condylar envelope surfaces for 34 healthy adults were formed and simplified as sagittal section curves. Cephalometric and maximum mandibular moving distances measurement were performed on the participants.

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The ever-growing aging population has led to an increasing need for removable partial dentures (RPDs) since they are typically the least expensive treatment options for partial edentulism. However, the digital design of RPDs remains challenging for dental technicians due to the variety of partially edentulous scenarios and complex combinations of denture components. To accelerate the design of RPDs, we propose a U-shape network incorporated with Transformer blocks to automatically generate RPD clasps, one of the most frequently used RPD components.

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Femtosecond laser (fs-laser) is a novel tooth preparation tool but its ablation efficiency is insufficient. The purpose is to establish a new fs-laser tooth ablation method based on a dual-wedges path ablation system, and explore the efficiency of tooth hard tissue and dental restorative materials ablation. Extracted third molars, pure titanium, cobalt-chromium alloy, gold alloy, and 3Y-zirconia were prepared into samples.

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Objectives: This study evaluated the accuracy of digital implant impressions with or without prefabricated landmarks compared with the conventional method in the edentulous mandible.

Methods: An edentulous mandibular stone cast with implant abutment analogs and scan bodies in FDI #46, #43, #33, and #36 served as the master model. The scans captured with intraoral scanners (IOS) were divided into four groups: IOS-NT (no landmarks + Trios 4 scanner), IOS-NA (no landmarks + Aoralscan 3 scanner), IOS-YT (landmarks + Trios 4 scanner), and IOS-YA (landmarks + Aoralscan 3 scanner) (n=10).

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Objectives: To evaluate the effect of a nanosilica-lithium spray coating on the internal and marginal fit of high translucent zirconia crowns using a digital evaluation method.

Methods: A three-dimensional analysis model of a zirconia abutment was digitally scanned using a dental scanner, and 30 monolithic high translucent zirconia crowns were designed and fabricated. They were divided into groups (n = 10) according to the surface treatment method: (1) no treatment: as-sintered zirconia; (2) airborne-particle abrasion with 50 μm AlO particles; and (3) nanosilica-lithium spray coating.

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Aim: Quantitative dental plaque evaluation is necessary for clinical and scientific work. The present study aimed to examine the reliability of a 3D image analysis method by digitally analyzing the color 3D images obtained from an intraoral scanner (IOS) and then detecting and quantifying the plaque information and comparing it with the clinical examination results.

Materials And Methods: A total of 140 teeth from five subjects with a standard dentition were enrolled.

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Background And Objective: The retention of selective laser melting (SLM)-built denture clasps is inferior to that of cast cobalt-chromium (Co-Cr) clasps engaging 0.01-in undercuts, which are commonly used in clinical practice. Either the clasps engage in excessively deep undercuts or inappropriate printing process parameters are applied.

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