Digital X-ray at the dentist

What is digital radiography?

Digital X-ray is an imaging method in which is not a conventional X-ray film is exposed, but a special film that is removed from a computer.

The X-ray image can then be visualized on the monitor, digitally and reproduced as desired.

Digital X-ray at the dentist

Digital X-ray is carried out in dentistry for the diagnosis and follow-up. Especially with digital X-ray decay can visualize diseased bodies, which when viewed normally in the mouth are not yet visible. Also, for example before treatment of periodontitis in a root canal treatment, the placement of crowns or tooth extraction, the making of a radiograph be a valuable support. It can be a digital X-ray of individual teeth and jaw limited areas, but also a comprehensive, so-called panoramic pictures to be taken.

How does the digital X-ray?

Digital X-Ray works as follows: As with the original technique, a (human) body in the desired range a certain short time by x-rays. The X-rays are then taken by an opposing foil, here are formed primarily from bone and teeth, to a lesser extent, soft tissue. This can then be transferred to the computer that stores a particular file format for digital radiography and the screen will be displayed.

 

 

Digital X-ray contrast to conventional X-ray

Digital radiography is a modern method, which has some advantages over the conventional X-ray. The images are generally of better quality than ordinary photographs. Because the images can be edited directly on a computer, you can save over-or under-exposed images "and must be repeated less frequently recorded. Digital X-Ray thus represents a time saving, but also an overall lower radiation exposure, which also limited by the required radiation intensity is due.

The usual chemicals and darkroom are no longer needed because a digital X-ray image will not be developed. The digitization, the respective X-ray are kept, without taking much space. In addition can be sent quickly to computer and will be judged from a distance as required by digital X-ray images taken by computer. For patients, digital X-ray also means that he can look at the record and almost directly from the dentist can explain.

Radiation dose with digital radiography

Despite the need to only moderate exposure to radiation digital X-ray safety regulations are observed. Too high a dose of radiation can damage the genetic material, which may in some cases to malignant tumors. Shielding of lead aprons are used, therefore the protection of radiation-sensitive parts of the body of the patient. The staff must observe when recording a sufficiently large distance, because the radiation intensity is low, the further the radiation source is removed. Before a radiograph should also be checked carefully whether this is useful for diagnosis.

Intraoral camera

With digital imaging, the course of treatment are documented.

What is digital imaging?

Digital Imaging is a process by which the practitioner is possible to simulate the patient to the treatment results in advance on the computer. Here are pictures with a camera from the oral cavity transmitted to the computer and processed. With the help of computers based on the patient before and after pictures will show what the treatment (dental, oral and maxillofacial surgeon, oral surgeon, orthodontist) can do anything for him.

Digital imaging is to demonstrate

* The treatment of misaligned teeth / jaw deformities

* Of Bleaching (tooth whitening) - the exchange of amalgam to tooth-colored fillings

* The treatment of periodontitis

* And much more.

What is an intraoral camera?

Using an intra-oral camera (a Latin word made intra = inside and os = mouth) and a PC, the digital imaging process can be realized. The intraoral camera is a small video camera that takes pictures from the mouth and displaying real-time on a monitor. Modern intraoral cameras are so small that they can be used without problems in the narrow mouth and still provide sharp images. This can be further process the images, the intra-oral camera is usually connected to a computer. The dentist used the intraoral camera is often the documentation to which it is bound to. Also, the success of treatment are documented fact.

 

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