OBJECTIVES Assessment of pubertal status and pubertal growth spurt in orthodontic patients has a considerable impact on the diagnosis, treatment plan and the outcome of orthodontic treatments. Hand-wrist radiography is routinely used to evaluate skeletal development. Some studies have shown that there is an association between bone development and different stages of dental calcification; there...

There is increasing demand in the field of dental and medical radiography for effective metal artifact reduction (MAR) in computed tomography (CT) because artifact caused by metallic objects causes serious image degradation that obscures information regarding the teeth and/or other biological structures. This paper presents a new MAR method that uses the Laplacian operator to reveal background ...

Fibrous dysplasia is a benign fibrous-osseous lesion in which normal bone is replaced by fibrous connective tissue and immature bone, affecting only one (monostotic) or several bones (polyostotic) and mainly occurring in children and young adults. When present in facial bones, the maxilla is more frequently involved than the mandible, which can cause facial asymmetry in addition to dental compl...

This study evaluated the performance of aluminum-copper alloy filtration, without the original aluminum filter, for dental radiography in terms of x-ray energy spectrum, air kerma rate and image quality. Comparisons of various thicknesses of aluminum-copper alloy in three different percentages were made with aluminum filtration. Tests were conducted on an intra-oral dental x-ray machine and wer...

Diagnosis and preoperative planning are critical in the execution of any surgical procedure. Panoramic radiography is a routine method used in dentistry to assist clinical diagnosis; however, with this technique 3D anatomical structures are compressed into 2D images, resulting in overlapping of structures which are of interest in the diagnosis. In this study we report the case of a patient who ...

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to identify the most common and severe types pathologic diseases surrounding impacted mandibular third molars using radiographic imaging. Cases procedures: An analysis past patients who had extracted at Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Cat D Hospital Gara Tajik Peshawar. Impacted molar lesions, patient age gender were used as study's outcome measures. C...

ABSTRAKOsteoporosis merupakan salah satu masalah kesehatan utama. Osteoporosis dianggap sebagai penyakit metabolik yang umum, dan sering diabaikan. Penyakit ini kebanyakan menyerang wanita dewasa dapat menyebabkan kekurusan kerapuhan tulang, memicu patah tulang. didiagnosis dengan mengukur Densitas Mineral Tulang menggunakan DXA (dual energy X-ray absorptiometry). Perawatan alat membutuhkan bia...

conclusions there was no statistically significant difference in the parotid absorbed dose between spiral tomography and a panoramic radiograph (p value = 0.18). the overall results of this study were similar to other studies. results for the tube side parotid, the average absorbed doses in spiral tomography of the anterior and posterior parts of the maxilla and mandible, with the 2 mm slice th...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to evaluate effects osteoporosis (OP) using panoramic mandibular index (PMI) and cortical (MCI) in radiographic cone-beam computed tomographic (CBCT) images demonstrate any advantages CBCT versus imaging those indexes. Materials & Methods: 36 female patients (18 with 18 no systemic disease) who had indication due dental problems were involved study. PMI ...