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Strategic Panoramic Analysis: Understand the Panoramic Images, learn to recognize artifacts and real pathologies.

  • Categories Video Courses
  • Duration 1h 35m
  • Total Enrolled 1
  • Last Update 01/29/2021

Course

Dental professionals must understand the difference between normal anatomical landmarks and abnormal findings, such as artifacts or pathology, which may be present on a panoramic image when viewing both the mandible and maxilla in the one projection. It is recommended to review the image systematically in order not to overlook anything that might be a deviation from normal. The focal trough is the area in which structures will appear most sharply and clearly. Structures, which fall in front of or behind, the focal trough, can be distorted, magnified or reduced. Panoramic radiography offers several advantages over conventional intraoral radiography. Broad anatomic region is imaged, including additional visualization of the areas of the body of the mandible beyond the periapical region, the ramus, the temporomandibular joint, the maxillary sinus and the stylohyoid complex. The focal trough is the area in which structures will appear most sharply and clearly. Magnification, geometric distortion, and overlapped images of teeth sometimes occur. Objects situated outside the focal trough will be distorted or obscured on the radiograph.

Description

Panoramic radiograph can provide a view of the maxilla, mandible, temporomandibular joints, teeth and their supporting structures on one film and is a crucial element in dental diagnosis for the dental practitioner. Panoramic radiographs are frequently indicated when dental professionals want to evaluate some structures such as unerupted third molars, orthodontic treatment, tooth development, developmental abnormalities, trauma or large lesions.  Structures, which fall in front of or behind, the focal trough or the area of sharpness on a panoramic radiograph, can be distorted, magnified or reduced. It is important to understand the limitation of panoramic radiographs for the practitioner as well as their distortion or magnification. In this webinar a review of the physic and radiographic principles will be given as well as the most common positioning errors. The double images and ghost images will be explained. A step by step review of the strategic analysis to go over the panoramic anatomical structures. Some clinical cases will also be presented.

What you'll learn

  • Learn the anatomy on a panoramic radiograph.
  • Learn the different positioning errors and how to avoid them.
  • Learn the strategic analytic method to look at the entire volume of the panoramic radiograph.
  • Clinical cases with pathologies are reviewed.
  • Go through the panoramic radiograph step by step and don't miss pathologies.

Course content

1 Lessons1h 35m

Panoramic Radiographs

Panoramic radiographs1:34:25

About the instructor

Dr. Katya Archambault is a Board Certified Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist from UCLA. She also received a Certificate in Implant Dentistry from NYU after studying for two years from 2007 to 2009. She got her dental degree from Laval University and did a Certificate in Microbiology at that same university. She owns the private practice San Diego Dental Health Center in La Jolla California. She also has an appointment at UCSD as a clinical instructor within the Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology. Her clinical interests are in Pathophysiology and Radiologic interpretation of the Maxillofacial Complex, Maxillofacial Radiology, Sleep Apnea, and Airway Evaluation, TMJ, Soft and Hard tissue reconstructive Surgery, implantology and navigation procedures. She is an international lecturer, published into journals and received several awards over the years. Dr. Archambault is also a member of the American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Academy of Osteointegration and International Congress of Oral Implantology.
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11 Courses

186 students

$299.00

This course includes

  • Webinar on Panoramic imaging

Requirements

  • none

Who this course is for

  • DDS, DMD and dental specialists