Digital Technologies

Question 1

Lets look at a Standard Orthodontic Photo Series. Standard series is ____ Photos:
3 facial ones: ____, frontal in VERPOSE (lips relaxed), ____
5 intraoral: ____, mandib (take using intraoral mirrors), ____, right, ____
v important that smile photo is used in restorative dentistry, smile arc is good, looks the way you want it. You have no idea where the lip is relation to teeth when trying to restore, can’t tell the
relation just from study models.

Answer 1

8
profile pic
smile pic
max
center
left

Question 2

Orthodontic Photo Series

\_\_\_\_(Class I, Class II, or Class III)
Overbite & Overjet
\_\_\_\_
Determinations
\_\_\_\_? Tooth Wear? Tooth Discoloration?
\_\_\_\_

Answer 2

molar & canine relationships
crowding and spacing determinations
smile arc

Question 3

Benefits of digital orthodontic photography

____ to take (no film costs)
____ to store on server or in the cloud
Ability to view photos at the time they are taken should equal better ____
Easy to ____ with patients and dental colleagues in office, via email, on mobile devices, etc.
Taking photos at each orthodontic visit can help with ____ of and communication about treatment progress

Answer 3

inexpensive
easy
quality
share
evaluation

Question 4

• Imaging software we use shown here
• imagining softwares thought people would use these on tablets (which we still do), so they came up with ANNOTATION FEATURES: allow draw on ____

Answer 4

tablet

Question 5

Easy to share with dental colleagues

• feature “____” (dolphin is the imaging software) - its a portal that referring docs and pts have access to, system gives them all of these photos
• can log in to “anywhere dolphin” and ____ all the images and x-rays of a mutual patient and they can download them for their system, its ____ compliant

Answer 5

anywhere dolphin
see
HIPPA

Question 6

Digital pano radiograph
Diagnostic information
\_\_\_\_ Teeth?
\_\_\_\_ Teeth? \_\_\_\_ molars?
Visible \_\_\_\_ Abnormalities?
Pathology?
Existing bone loss or \_\_\_\_ resorption?

• TMJ? -> this pano is ____ gold standard to diagnose TMJ pathologies but its a ____
• existing bone loss or root resorption *if suspect bone loss need to get FMX

Answer 6

missing or extra
impacted
third
TMJ
root

NOT
START

Question 7

Digital Cephalometric
Diagnostic Information

____ Position (Well-Positioned, Prognathic or Retrognathic?)
____ Position (Well-Positioned, Protrusive, or Retrusive?)
Incisor ____ (Well-Positioned, Proclined, or Retroclined?)
Angle of the ____ (Normodivergent, Hyperdivergent, or Hypodivergent?)
____ profile & lip balance

• mandibular plane
• • normodivergent - ____ MD PLANE
• • HYPERDIVERGENT - ____ growing pt/longer face pt
• • HYPODIVERGENT - ____ structure

Answer 7

maxillary & mandibular
incisor A-P
angulation
mandibular plane
soft tissue

flat/normal
vertical
square jaw

Question 8

Benefits of digital orthodontic radiography

____ radiation dose as compared to traditional orthodontic radiography
____ to store on server or in the cloud
Cephalometric tracings & analyses are significantly less ____
____ to share with patients and dental colleagues in office, via email, on mobile devices, etc.

Answer 8

lower
easy
time consuming
easy