Journal of Korean Dental Association

Search

Close

J Korean Dent Assoc. 2016;54(9):704-711. Published online September 30, 2016.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22974/jkda.2016.54.9.003
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.

Keywords :radiologic interpretation;dental imaging;diagnostic image;

Go to Top