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Dental Radiography -- Principles and Techniques

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Extraoral Images   - placed outside the mouth during xray exposure - most common is pano  
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Purpose   overall view of skull and jaws  
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Cephalostat   pano xray tube head used in conjunction w special extension arm  
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Film   - sizes vary - 5x7 or 8x10 or size 4 occlusal receptor  
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Grid   -used to reduce amount of scatter radiation that reaches extraoral film during exposure -decrease film fog and increase contrast  
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Lateral Jaw Imaging   - examine post region of MD - useful in kids, PT w limited jaw movement  
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Lateral Jaw Imaging -- Body of MD   eval impacted teeth, fractures, and lesions  
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Lateral Jaw Imaging -- Ramus of MD   - eval impacted 3rd molars, lg lesions, fractures extend past ramus  
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Skull Imaging   examine bones of the face and skull - used in oral surgery and ortho  
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Lateral Cephalometric Projection   - eval fcaial growth and development, trauma, and disease - bones of face/skull, soft tissue profile of face  
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Postanterior Projection   - eval facial growth and development, trauma and disease - frontal and ethmoid sinuses, orbits, and nasal cavity  
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Waters Projection   - eval MX sinus, frontal and ethmoid sinuses and nasal cavity  
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Submentovertex Projection   - ID posi of condyles, base of skull, eval fractures in zygomatic - Sphenoid and ethmoid sinuses, lateral wall of MX sinus  
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Reverse Towne Projection   - ID fractures of condylar neck and ramus area  
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TMJ Imaging   - arthrography of MRI must b used to examine this area - transcranial projection and TMJ tomography used  
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Transcranial Projection (Lindblom Technique)   eval superior surface of condyle and articular eminence - Used to eval movement  
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TMJ Tomography   examine TMJ  
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