Digital radiography utilizes computer technology and digital sensors for the acquisition, viewing, storage, and sharing of radiographic images. It offers several advantages over the older traditional film based methods of taking x-rays. The most significant of these advantages is that digital radiography reduces a patient’s exposure to radiation. Other benefits are that images can be viewed instantly after being taken, can be seen simultaneously as needed by multiple practitioners, and can be easily shared with other offices. Digital x-rays are also safer for the environment as they do not require any chemicals or paper to develop.
An electronic pad, known as a sensor is used instead of film to acquire a digital image. After the image is taken, it goes directly into the patient’s file on the computer. Once it is stored on the computer, it can be easily viewed on a screen, shared, or printed out.
In addition to taking small, individual diagnostic images of specific teeth or sections of teeth as needed, our panorex unit can take a single digital panoramic X-ray. This image provides a panoramic, flat, two-dimensional view of the teeth, the upper and lower jawbones, the nasal sinuses, and the temporomandibular joints (TMJ).
Our panorex system uses the leading technology to produce a simple, comfortable, and fast digital image with minimal X-ray exposure to the patient. Since this picture gets taken extra orally, from outside of the mouth, the patient only needs to hold still briefly while resting the jaw on a platform as the unit rotates in a semicircle around the head.
As a valuable diagnostic tool, panorex X-rays help check for conditions such as periodontal disease, jawbone pathology, the dental development of unerupted and erupted teeth, impacted teeth, TMJ disorders, and sinusitis.
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