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Panoramic radiographic examination of patients who are edentulous
Author(s) -
CATELLI WILLIAM F.,
ENGSTROM HELENE I. M.,
HOLLENDER LARS G.,
FELLER RALPH P.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
special care in dentistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.328
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1754-4505
pISSN - 0275-1879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1754-4505.1987.tb00618.x
Subject(s) - medicine , radiography , magnification , darkroom , radiodensity , dentistry , orthodontics , foreign bodies , maxillary sinus , radiology , surgery , art , computer science , visual arts , computer vision
Summary Panoramic radiographs of 289 patients who were edentulous were investigated for: root fragments, impacted teeth, radio‐paque areas, radiolucent areas, foreign bodies, maxillary sinus changes, TMJ changes, and extent of bony atrophy. Comparisons were made with the results of previous studies. Technical and darkroom procedures were analyzed with regard to processing, positioning, and procedural errors. A 14% frequency of pathologic findings was found. These findings support the conclusions of others 2–5 that many edentulous patients have some dental pathosis. Twenty‐seven percent of the radiographs had processing errors and 5% had artifacts resulting from procedural errors. Only 24% of the radiographs were without gross positional errors. The most common error being anterior magnification. Under‐or overdevelopment interfered with interpretation in about 10% of the films. Thirty‐seven percent had condyles that were either partially or totally missing.