Digital panoramic X-ray
Advantages:
- The dentist receives a digitized dental image within seconds, which he can use immediately to assess the dental status and discuss it with the patient and colleagues.
- An unbeatable advantage of digital X-ray technology is the up to 90 percent reduction in radiation exposure compared to conventional analog technology.
- Digital X-ray images have a higher image quality than conventional images and provide excellent images of tooth and bone structures. In addition, they can be immediately post-processed on the computer and brightness and contrast can be easily adjusted. In this way, they support a quick and accurate diagnosis.
- The digital images can be easily forwarded to patients, co-treating and follow-up doctors, making cumbersome and poor-quality copies a thing of the past.
- Digital technology protects the environment: analog X-ray films and, above all, the corresponding development chemicals, which were necessary for conventional X-rays, are completely eliminated. In this way, the use of digital X-ray technology makes an important contribution to protecting and preserving a healthy environment.
Nowadays, digital panoramic X-rays are one of the most important components of modern and minimally invasive dentistry. If the dentist wants to determine the condition of his patient's teeth, he has various means at his disposal.
The panoramic X-ray is an important tool, no treatment is carried out without it. Bone substance and tissue are checked and the extent to which the teeth can be loaded is examined. This allows the dental treatment to be planned precisely.
Of course, the examination begins with a detailed discussion with the patient, an examination of the teeth and X-ray diagnostics. Not all areas of the mouth can be examined visually. For example, the dentist cannot look into the spaces between the teeth, into a tooth itself or into the jawbone where the tooth roots are located.
In order to obtain conclusive certainty about the state of health of these areas, dentists have the option of using digital X-ray technology to examine their patients in the gentlest possible way.
Digital X-rays have become an indispensable part of the repertoire of modern dental examination methods. It makes it possible to visualize tooth and bone structures that otherwise cannot be examined by the dentist. In this way, digital X-rays can make an important contribution to protecting and maintaining the health of patients and their teeth.