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i-CAT DIAGNOSTIC CT SCANS

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Diagnostic CT scan images are supplied to referring dentists, burnt onto a CD, and are also supplied with the necessary software to make them fully readable on any reasonably modern computer.

Diagnostic CT scans are useful for a variety of reasons:

  • To check a patient’s suitability for dental implants.
  • To check bone depth, width and density prior to placement of implants.
  • To find the best location to place an implant, avoiding sinuses & nerve canals.
  • To have a 3-D view of the sinus cavities, to assess the need for sinus lifts.
  • To detect vertical root fractures that may not be visible on an OPG.
  • To check the proximity of an impacted 3rd molar or other tooth to the nerve canal.
  • To investigate damage done during previous root canal treatment.
  • For an accurate assessment where there are legal issues or claims pending.

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* Dental Vertical Root Fractures: Value of CT in Detection

Vertical root fractures occur in approximately 4% of root canal treated teeth and are difficult to diagnose on the basis of clinical observations, even with the use of conventional OPG's. A fracture line is observed on dental radiographs in only about 35% of cases. Because a vertical root fracture necessitates extraction of the tooth, it is advantageous to find a more efficient and reliable means of establishing the diagnosis before an operation, so that the costs and effort of an ineffective apical root resection may be avoided.

** Other considerations

A CT scan can be useful in a case where legal issues have arisen; where a patient has decided for whatever reason to make a claim against a GDP for treatment that did not result as the patient had expected. CT scans can provide invaluable information that could provide GDP's with evidence that could exonerate them completely. In a case where there are legal issues are pending we can take a diagnostic CT scan, which can be sent to an appointed expert witness.

 

 

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