Digital equipment in all dental practices is commonplace. From digital imaging through electronic recordkeeping, general dentists and specialists are seeing more accurate diagnoses, faster treatment ...times, and lower costs for equipment. Here in one volume is a comprehensive look at the digital technology available, describing indications, contraindications, advantages, disadvantages, limitations, and applications in the various dental fields. Included are digital imaging, digital impressions, digital operative dentistry, digital prosthodontics, digital implant fabrication and placement, and digital applications in endodontics, orthodontics, and oral surgery. The book is ideal for dental students seeking a reference for digital dental technology and for seasoned practitioners and specialists interested in incorporating digital technology in their daily practice.
Digital radiographic imaging systems, such as those using photostimulable storage phosphor, amorphous selenium, amorphous silicon, CCD, and MOSFET technology, can produce adequate image quality over ...a much broader range of exposure levels than that of screen/film imaging systems. In screen/film imaging, the final image brightness and contrast are indicative of over- and underexposure. In digital imaging, brightness and contrast are often determined entirely by digital postprocessing of the acquired image data. Overexposure and underexposures are not readily recognizable. As a result, patient dose has a tendency to gradually increase over time after a department converts from screen/film-based imaging to digital radiographic imaging. The purpose of this report is to recommend a standard indicator which reflects the radiation exposure that is incident on a detector after every exposure event and that reflects the noise levels present in the image data. The intent is to facilitate the production of consistent, high quality digital radiographic images at acceptable patient doses. This should be based not on image optical density or brightness but on feedback regarding the detector exposure provided and actively monitored by the imaging system. A standard beam calibration condition is recommended that is based on RQA5 but uses filtration materials that are commonly available and simple to use. Recommendations on clinical implementation of the indices to control image quality and patient dose are derived from historical tolerance limits and presented as guidelines.
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Midfoot/Forefoot; Other
Introduction/Purpose:
While lengthening of the lateral column through a calcaneal neck osteotomy is an integral component of flatfoot reconstruction in younger ...patients with flexible planovalgus deformities, the procedure has been implicated in iatrogenic calcaneocuboid (CC) subluxation and subsequent degenerative changes at the CC articulation. The purpose of this study is to characterize alterations at the CC joint following lateral column lengthening (LCL) as well as to determine if Steinman pin stabilization of the CC joint prior to distraction maintains a normal CC relationship.
Methods:
Seven matched pairs of fresh frozen cadaveric feet underwent pre-procedure plain radiography and cross-sectional computed tomography (CT) imaging. LCL via a calcaneal neck osteotomy was then performed. One foot of each matched pair had a single smooth Steinman pin placed centrally across the CC joint prior to osteotomy distraction. Distraction across each osteotomy was then performed and maintained with a 12mm porous titanium wedge. Repeat imaging was obtained and compared to pre-procedure studies to quantify sagittal and rotational differences at the CC articulation
Results:
Following LCL, plain radiography demonstrated statistically significant increases in the percentage of the calcaneal articular surface dorsal to the superior aspect of the cuboid in both the pinned (8.2% vs 17.6%, p=0.02) and unpinned (12.5% vs 16.3%, p=0.04) specimens. No difference in the percentage of subluxation was found between the two groups following LCL. CT imaging demonstrated statistically significant increases in rotation between the calcaneus and cuboid following LCL in both the pinned (7.6O +- 5.6O, p=0.01) and unpinned (17O +- 12.3O, p=0.01) specimens. Though a greater degree of rotation was present in the unpinned specimens following LCL, this difference was not statistically significant (p=0.28).
Conclusion:
Both sagittal and rotatory subluxation seem to occur at the CC joint following LCL regardless of pin stabilization. As a single pin would be expected to limit pure translation while having little effect on rotation, it is possible that the rotational changes identified on three-dimensional imaging are interpreted as dorsal translation when viewed two dimensionally using plain radiography. Consideration should therefore be given to CC stabilization with two pins during LCL to prevent this rotatory subluxation.
Background
The European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD) proposes this best clinical practice guidance to help practitioners decide when and how to prescribe dental radiographs in children and ...adolescents.
Methods
Four expert working groups conducted each a systematic review of the literature. The main subjects were radiation protection, intraoral dental radiography (bitewing and periapical radiographs), panoramic radiography (PR) and cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). In addition, three workshops were held during the corresponding EAPD Interim Seminar in Chania (Crete, Greece) in 2019. On the basis of the identified evidence, all invited experts presented their findings and during the workshops aspects of clinical relevance were discussed.
Results
Several clinical-based recommendations and statements were agreed upon.
Conclusion
There is no or low-grade evidence about the efficacy of dental radiographic examinations in young populations. The given recommendations and rationales should be understood as best clinical practice guidance. It is essential to respect the radiological principles of an individualized and patient-specific justification. When a dental radiograph is required, its application needs to be optimized, aiming at limiting the patient’s exposure to ionising radiation according to the ALADAIP principle (
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•We organized two challenges for landmark detection, pathology classification and teeth segmentation in dental x-ray image analysis.•Datasets include 400 cephalometric images and 120 bitewing images ...with a referenced standard generated by medical experts.•The datasets and the evaluation software will be made available to the research community, further encouraging future developments in this field.
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Dental radiography plays an important role in clinical diagnosis, treatment and surgery. In recent years, efforts have been made on developing computerized dental X-ray image analysis systems for clinical usages. A novel framework for objective evaluation of automatic dental radiography analysis algorithms has been established under the auspices of the IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging 2015 Bitewing Radiography Caries Detection Challenge and Cephalometric X-ray Image Analysis Challenge. In this article, we present the datasets, methods and results of the challenge and lay down the principles for future uses of this benchmark. The main contributions of the challenge include the creation of the dental anatomy data repository of bitewing radiographs, the creation of the anatomical abnormality classification data repository of cephalometric radiographs, and the definition of objective quantitative evaluation for comparison and ranking of the algorithms. With this benchmark, seven automatic methods for analysing cephalometric X-ray image and two automatic methods for detecting bitewing radiography caries have been compared, and detailed quantitative evaluation results are presented in this paper. Based on the quantitative evaluation results, we believe automatic dental radiography analysis is still a challenging and unsolved problem. The datasets and the evaluation software will be made available to the research community, further encouraging future developments in this field. (http://www-o.ntust.edu.tw/~cweiwang/ISBI2015/)
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Panoramic radiology systems are currently being used in more practices than at other any time in the past. The practitioner now has decisions to make regarding detector technology selection for image ...acquisition and must remain informed about appropriate usage. This book is applicable to all panoramic dental images and equipment. It approaches panoramic radiology usage in the context of general and specialty applications.
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