Background: Considering the severity of COVID-19 outbreak and its rapid person-to-person transmission challenges it has brought about in dentistry, especially intraoral radiography, following established guidelines prescribing radiographs is great prominence. Objectives: We aimed to evaluate necessity prescribed estimate number unnecessary prescriptions during pandemic. Methods: This cross-sect...

Introduction: It’s a rare report about intestinal obstruction caused by barium retention after small bowel radiography of oral barium. An 83-year-old woman was admitted for bile duct cancer with metal stent and incomplete intestinal obstruction .The patient ever did upper gastrointestinal barium meal examination which showed the mucosa of descending part of duodenum was unclear and contrast med...

Objectives: Panoramic radiographs are used as a diagnostic tool adjunctive to oral examinations, treatment plans, and evaluation of outcomes. This study was aimed determine the distribution Dense Bone Island (DBI) in jaws through panoramic radiography based on gender age.
 Materials Methods: The method for this research is descriptive-observational. data secondary with total 422 radiograph...

In private practice, success is ensured when one balances the art, science, and business of dentistry. Advanced technology continues to expand the capabilities of the contemporary dental practice, providing tools that allow clinicians to achieve greater efficiencies and productivity. Digital radiography, as one such tool, conveys benefits such as patient safety, rapid image capture, and many ot...

Purpose: To investigate peri-implant bone resorption around 108 ITI dental implants 1 year after prosthetic loading using extraoral panoramic, conventional intraoral periapical, and digital radiologic techniques. Materials and Methods: A total of 108 implants were placed (59 in the maxilla and 49 in the mandible) in 42 patients (16 men and 26 women) with a mean age of 44.2 years (range 14 to 68...

OBJECTIVE To gather information about the radiographic facilities and techniques used by Lithuanian general dentists. MATERIALS AND METHODS Questionnaires were sent to all 2879 Lithuanian dental practitioners registered on the Lithuanian Dental Chamber licence registry data list. The questionnaire was made with multiple-choice answers. Respondents were invited to choose the only one category ...

Background: Panoramic imaging is a technique to create images of facial structures. Various factors affect the preparation high quality and proper panoramic image, such as patient’s position. The aim this study was investigate positional errors in based on dentition type patients referring oral maxillofacial radiology department Tabriz Dental School Methods: This cross-sectional conducted Radio...

Background: Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) occurs in approximately 95% of people older than 40 years; usually, it is diagnosed at the age 60 years. The etiology OSCC multifactorial. Chronic mechanical trauma due to sharp teeth has also been suggested as an oral tongue. Purpose: This case report aimed describe resulting from and prevent further metastasis by correctly diagnosing lesion earl...

abstract introductiion. there are a lot of edentulous patients who need complete dentures in any society. one of the most important problems of edentulous patients is remaining dental lesions. atrophy of maxillary or mandibular bone, infections abcesses, tumors and so on are among some other problems. in this study we tried to evaluate the panoramic radiography in order to detect these problems...