Introduction: The present study was aimed at evaluating common positioning errors on panoramic radiographs taken in the Radiology Department of Mashhad Dental School. Materials and methods: The study sample included 1,990 digital panoramic radiographs taken in the Radiology Department of Mashhad Dental School by a Planmeca Promax (Planmeca Oy, Helsinki, Finland), during a 2-year period (2010–20...

The aim of this study was to assess general dental practitioners' knowledge of dental radiography and radiation protection in order to alert the Belgian authorities and dental professional societies. Prior to attending a postgraduate course on intraoral radiology, general dental practitioners in Flanders, Belgium, were asked to fill in a questionnaire regarding the radiological equipment and th...

Shabil Mustafa, AC Raj, Jayaprasad Anekar, Darshan Devang Divakar, Abdulaziz Abdullah Al Kheraif, Ravikumar Ramakrishnaiah, Aftab Ahmed Khan, Obaid Abdullah Alshahrani, Narendra Prakash Rai Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Malabar Dental College and Research Centre, Kerala, India Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, KVG Dental College and Hospital, Karnataka, India Dental Biomat...

X‐rays were discovered in 1895 by Wilhelm Roentgen. Digital radiology has overtaken conventional screen‐film radiography since it was introduced in the mid‐1980s.[1] Digital imaging uses sensor of solid‐state, and information is presented and stored as an image using a computer. The dawn of the digital era in dental radiography came in 1987 with the first digital radiography system called radio...

Vishal Mehrotra1*, Sumit Agarwal2, Asheesh Sawhny3, Manish Gupta4 and Kriti Garg5 1Reader, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center, India 2Senior Lecturer, Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center, India 3Reader, Department of Conservative Dentistry, Rama Dental College Hospital & Research Center...

BACKGROUND A guide for the implementation of dental digital imaging reports was developed and validated through the International Standard of Health Informatics-Health Level Seven (HL7), achieving interoperability with an electronic system that keeps dental records. INTRODUCTION Digital imaging benefits patients, who can view previous close-ups of dental examinations; providers, because of gr...

introduction: various systems for intraoral digital radiography have been available as an alternative to film–based radiography. in consideration of several advantages of digital radiography such as less patient absorbed dose, manipulation of im age quality and elimination of processing, it has been extensively used in different fields of denti stry in recent years. the purpose of this study wa...

In this study, dose-area product (DAP) measurements in panoramic dental radiology have been performed in Germany. The results obtained in this study were proposed as diagnostic reference levels (DRLs). A representative number of dental panoramic units, both with digital and conventional image receptors, have been chosen. Common statistical parameters such as mean, standard deviation and 3rd qua...

This is an official document of the International Association of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (IADMFR) that provides guidelines for programs in dental and maxillofacial radiology education for undergraduate dental students. The standards are intended as a program development aid.

1Sanat Kumar Bhuyan, 2RN Mody, 3Ruchi Bhuyan 1Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Institute of Dental Science, Sum Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Hitkarani Dental College, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India 3Professor and Head, Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Institute of Dental Science, Sum Hosp...