Basic principles of interpretation in Dental imaging

Han,  Sang-Sun

J Korean Dent Assoc > Volume 54(9); 2016 > Article

The Journal of The Korean Dental Association 2016;54(9):704-711.
Published online September 30, 2016.

치의학 영상 판독의 기본원리

한상선

연세대학교 치과대학 구강악안면방사선과학교실

Basic principles of interpretation in Dental imaging

Sang-Sun Han

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, Yonsei University, College of Dentistry

Abstract

Radiologic images in dentistry are essential to perform the diagnosis, treatment, and tracking process of prognosis, thus the ability of accurate evaluation in the diagnostic images is requested for dental clinician. Radiologic interpretation means recognition of a normality and an abnormality and to report the possible diagnosis and differential diagnosis list. Therefore, dental clinicians should be familiar with the basic principle of interpretation of intraoral and extraoral radiographic images primarily used in dental clinics. Recently, dental cone beam CT is widely used for diagnositc process, thus understanding the three dimensional images is requested. The objective of this manuscript is to help the dental clinicians to interpret accurately the diagnostic images by introducing the basic principles of the step by step analytic process in the appearance of a lesion.

Key Words: radiologic interpretation;dental imaging;diagnostic image;