AIM The purpose of this laboratory research was to compare the accuracy of digital and conventional bitewing radiographs in the diagnosis of recurrent caries under class II amalgam restorations. METHODS AND MATERIALS This study involved 82 posterior intact teeth in which class II amalgam boxes were prepared. Carious lesions were simulated in half of the proximal boxes in the intersection betw...

During my dental training, I was taught intraoral radiography using only rectangular collimation. Once out of the dental school in 1993, I realized that not many practices used rectangular collimators. Often-heard reasons for not using a rectangular collimator are cone-cutting errors and the fact that it is easier to aim with a circular collimator. Later, during my training as a dental and maxi...

Diagnostic imaging is a critical tool for complete evaluation of oral health and disease in the horse. Even the most advanced oral exam using endoscopic techniques will not be able to determine the health of adjacent hard and soft tissue structures, the reserve crown, and the roots located within the alveolus. Some equine teeth that appear normal on examination of the clinical crown can be the ...

The purpose of this study was to compare the physical imaging properties of three kinds of imaging plates (IPs) used with two photostimulable phosphor systems for dental radiography: HR-V, used with the Digora, BAS-SR, and ST-V, used with the DenOptix for intraoral radiography and panoramic radiography, respectively. Sensitivity to X-ray, gradient, modulation transfer function (MTF), noise powe...

Aim: Cemento-osseous dysplasia (COD) is usually asymptomatic and slowly progressive benign fibro-osseous lesion characterized by the replacement of normal bone with fibrous tissue. The aim this presentation to evaluate clinical radiographical findings six COD cases that were detected incidentally during radiographic examination.
 Case Report: Six female patients who four (%66) them differe...

INTRODUCTION The objective of the work was to assess the suitability of digital radiography with the option of tomosynthesis for the purpose of mineralization of bone, grafted to the alveolar cleft fissure. Moreover the assessment of the influence of the patients age on the operation date on the transplanted bone mineralization degree was carried out. Furthermore, an attempt to compare the dens...