Diagnostic Tool – Digital Dental X-Rays
Digital Dental X-Rays can improve the quality of dental care and can be done at DENTIST3. Here’s what you should know about them:
How Do They Work?
X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation that unlike visible light by penetrating soft tissue. Bone reflects most of the radiation, hence the image of the X-Ray formed in black and white in a film as an image to view.
In those days, traditional x-rays use film to acquire images. Then, technologies improved by digitalised dental x-rays with the use of sensors connected to a computer. Digital Dental x-rays is the new trend that saved in a file and easily to be transferred in a file form.
What are the advantages over traditional dental X-Rays?
Less chance of side effects, Getting an x-ray exposes you to radiation, which in rare cases can be harmful with a small risk of short-term side effects. However, digital x-rays produce significantly less radiation than conventional x-rays. This makes digital X-rays safer, designed to expose the human body to only 10 percent of the radiation of X-rays normally cause.
Panoramic OrthopantomaGram (OPG)
What are the X-Ray for?
X-ray play an important roles for Dentists to do diagnosis on the issues patient have. With Panoramic Orthopantomagram (OPG) at least, the dentist will be able to see clearly what is the issue occurring internally on your jaw. With OPG taken, image will be able to show the teeth on Maxillary and Mandibular Jaw. The main search that the dentist will look through will be any source of Cavities on the tooth, Infections and all the conditions of the teeth in your mouth.
The common treatment that requires OPG will be Minor Oral Surgery (Wisdom Tooth Removal), Orthodontics Treatments, Root Canal Treatment, Implant surgery and any kind of surgeries. This image will be able to provide the location of the Inferior Alveolar Nerve and also the sinus floor position. This is important for the surgeon to locate and to do measurements before any surgeries. While the Cephalometrics is important for the orthodontics treatment to do measurements of all the position of the teeth. With both the X-ray, of course the dentists will be able to do proper diagnosis as well as treatment plan.
Lateral Cephalometric (CEPH)
●They are beneficial to the environment
Conventional X-rays require chemicals that can cause environmental harm. However, these chemicals are not used to produce digital dental x-rays. In addition, there is no need to dispose of film paper.
