Dear Imaging Insider,
In his latest journey into the third dimension, Dr. Anthony Ramirez presents a number of scans that illustrate extensive asymptomatic pathology and bony destruction that goes undetected, unrecognized, or neglected by dentists and patient alike. Learn more in our Insider Exclusive.
In other Imaging Community news, when you're using an intraoral scanner for digital impressions of a patient's upper jaw, do you run into difficulties with palatal vault heights or arch widths? A study in PLOS One investigated the effect palatal vault heights and arch widths might have on the accuracy of these impressions. Read more here.
If the results of an intraoral full-arch scan were as accurate as those from a plaster model, which would you use? Researchers from an orthodontics department in South Korea addressed that question, and their results may surprise you. Read more here.
Practitioners seeking to detect pathological changes in their patients' soft and hard oral tissue may find that optical coherence tomography works as well as -- or even better than -- cone-beam CT, according to a new study in Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology. Read more here.
