Contributors: 1Post-graduate Student, Department of Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Radiology, Guru Nanak Dev Dental College & Research Institute, Sunam, Punjab, India; 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Radiology, Guru Nanak Dev Dental College & Research Institute, Sunam, Punjab, India; 3Reader, Department of Oral Medicine & Maxillofacial Radiology, Guru Nanak Dev D...

A quality assurance program in radiology provides the basis for systematic measurement of various parameters which affect the quality and production of a radiographic image. We have outlined a program which can be implemented in dental offices by dentists or auxiliary personnel without sophisticated instruments. Tests designed to establish the adequacy of specific functions are described togeth...

1DDS, MSc, PhD student, Department of Oral Radiology, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 2DDS, Department of Oral Radiology, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, BA, Brazil. 3DDS, MSc, PhD student, Department of Oral Diagnosis, Piracicaba Dental School, State University of Campinas, Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. 4DDS, MSc, PhD, Department of...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether standardizing commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) display devices to the digital imaging and communications in medicine part 14: greyscale standard display function (DICOM part 14: GSDF) would affect the presentation of dental images. METHODS Two COTS display devices from the radiology department of a dental teaching hospital and a laptop computer monitor for ref...

High-quality, diagnostic equine dental radiographs can be taken under field conditions by using portable X-ray equipment. Utilizing a stand to support the head of the sedated horse and X-ray cassette, repeatable motionless films can be taken. Holding the horse’s mouth open with a PVC pipe gag brings the upper and lower cheek teeth out of occlusion and decreases superimposition of the arcades. A...

1Department of Radiology, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan 2Research Institute for Diseases of Old Age, Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine 3Research & Development Group, Hitachi Ltd. 4Department of Radiology, University of Tokyo 5Department of Radiological Sciences, Graduate School of Human Health Sciences 6Department of...

Tooth Size in Crowded and Spaced Dentition among Western Uttar Pradesh Population: A Biometric Study Vishwas Bansal, Priyanka V. Bansal, Sunny Aggarwal, Manu Batra, Mudit Gupta 1 MDS, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthodontics, Kalka Dental College, Meerut, India. 2 BDS, Private Practitioner 3 MDS, Assistant Professor, Department of Periodontics, Uttarkhand Dental & Medical Research Instit...