Open AccessReferral pattern to a university-based oral and maxillofacial cone beam CT service
Author(s) -
Fatima M. Jadu,
Ahmed M Jan
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
indian journal of dental research/indian journal of dental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.277
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1998-3603
pISSN - 0970-9290
DOI - 10.4103/ijdr.ijdr_295_18
Subject(s) - cone beam computed tomography , referral , medicine , specialty , oral and maxillofacial radiology , medical physics , dentistry , computed tomography , oral and maxillofacial surgery , orthodontics , family medicine , radiology
Despite the rising popularity of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) imaging in the field of dentistry, very few studies have addressed the questions of which dental specialties most frequently request CBCT images and which CBCT indications are most popular. This study attempts to answer both of these questions.