More
and more dentists are now using “cone beam imaging”, or the
technology to make a more accurate diagnosis on a patient. Cone beam
imaging is essentially CT scanning, which takes a more detailed image
of a patient’s teeth or jaws. That, in turn, helps the dentist to
see the patient’s condition more clearly than via regular CT scans
or X-rays.
A
cone beam scan has a spherical volume of roughly 15 centimeters (cm)
in diameter. Given that the scanner captures an image about 15 cm in
diameter and 12 cm in height, it allows the dentist to scan the
entire jaw area or just a specific one there. It captures an image of
joints and other anatomical structures of the target area, just like
a regular CT scan.
Cone
beam imaging is also safer and faster than regular CT scanning.
Regular CT scans are done with minimal radiation doses, but a cone
beam scanner has a radiation dosage up to 100 hundred times less.
Additionally, cone beam uses considerably less time to scan the area
as opposed to a typical CT scan.
Already,
cone beam imaging or scanning is catching on among dentists, not just
among dentists in Daytona Beach, but pretty much elsewhere.
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