公开(公告)号：US20210315460A1

公开(公告)日：2021-10-14

申请号：US17285309

申请日：2019-10-09

Applicant: OSAKA UNIVERSITY

Inventor： Hisanao HAZAMA ,  Kunio AWAZU ,  Kazushi YOSHIKAWA

IPC: A61B5/00

Abstract: Disclosed is an optical dental caries diagnostic device and an optical diagnostic device for periodontal diseases that can quantitatively diagnose progression of dental caries or periodontal diseases, and an optical diagnostic method including the same. Also disclosed is a diagnostic system including such diagnostic devices.
The optical dental caries diagnostic device (1) has a probe (30) having optical transparency and a taper shape with an end portion to be in contact with a tooth, a light source (20) emitting light to the probe (30), and a light receiving element (40) receiving light from the end portion of the probe (30).