The success of dental identification is often dependent on the extent of previous dental care and the location of detailed dental records. However, several factors limit available comparable data among children. There are often no clinical indications for dental radiography before the age of five and many children and adolescents have no restorative care. This reduces the amount of individualiz...

Prevention of more invasive restorative treatment modalities requires early caries diagnosis which dental clinicians face during everyday practice. The primary visual inspection method has partial reliability for detecting noncavitated lesions, especially on proximal surfaces. Thus, dentists regularly prefer bitewing radiographs as an adjunct method for diagnosis of the carious lesions. Many ra...

introduction: although proximal dental caries are very common, clinical examinations cannot detect them all. panoramic radiography has been widely used in dentistry for both diagnosis and screening. this study aimed to investigate and compare the efficacy of two digital panoramic radiography techniques in the diagnosis of proximal caries. methods: a total number of 60 patients referred to a den...

objective: tooth decay is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world. after pit and fissures, enamel of proximal surface is the second region prone to rot. bitewing images are one of the most important diagnostic tools for the detection of caries . given the importance of accurate and timely detection of decay , the current study was aimed to evaluate the ability and skill of the fina...

Objectives: In restorative dentistry, it is essential to estimate the amount of remnant tooth structure after caries removal to make the best treatment plan. The present study was aimed to determine whether there is a correlation between the real thickness of remnant dentin under carious lesion and the radiographical measurement from photostimulable phosphor plates (PSPs). Methods: a whole numb...

BACKGROUND Although numerous studies have used digital intraoral imaging, only a few studies have used photo-optical methods for the diagnosis of caries. Moreover, several limitations exist in terms of observers (experience and specialty) and the caries lesion itself. Hence, the aims of this study were to evaluate the diagnostic capability of near-infrared light transillumination (NILT) and PSP...

AIM To identify the radiological findings from routine screening panoramic radiographs taken of adult (> or = 18 years) patients in general dental practice. METHOD Forty-one general dental practitioners (GDPs) who routinely took panoramic radiographs of all new adult patients were recruited. In total, they submitted 1,818 panoramic radiographs of consecutive patients along with basic patient ...

Introduction: Although proximal dental caries are very common, clinical examinations cannot detect them all. Panoramic radiography has been widely used in dentistry for both diagnosis and screening. This study aimed to investigate and compare the efficacy of two digital panoramic radiography techniques in the diagnosis of proximal caries. Methods: A total number of 60 patients referred to a den...