Lab 2 Flashcards
_______ is the study of head-films, called cephalogram.
Cephalometric
A ______ is a two-dimensional projection of the skull.
cephalogram
These films are taken in a ________:
•Which is an x-ray apparatus with a standard 5-foot source-object distance.
cephalostat.
The image receptor is positioned parallel to the patient’s _______
midsagittal plane.
The patient is placed with the ____ side toward the image receptor.
left
What are the 5 functional components of the face?
Cranium/ cranial base Maxilla and nasomaxillary complex Max teeth and alv process Mandibular teeth teeth and alv process Manbile
What is red dot?
Sella -S
•Midpoint of sella turcica or
hypophyseal fossa or
pituitary fossa.
Sella - S
•Point at the center of the
anterior border of the
foramen magnum at the
base of the occipital bone.
Basion - Ba
What’s the red dot?
Basion -Ba
•The most anterior point
of the frontal bone.
Glabella (Gl)
What’s the yellow arrow?
Glabella (Gl)
•The most Anterior point of
the Frontonasal suture in
the mid-saggital plane.
Nasion (N)
Whats the red dot?
Nasion (N)
•Lowest point in the inferior
margin of the orbit.
•midpoint between right and left
image.
Orbitale (Or)
Whats the red dot?
Orbitale (Or)
•Bilateral tear-drop shaped area,
the anterior shadow of which
represents the posterior surface of
the tuberosity of the maxilla.
Pterygomaxillary Fissure (PTM)
•The most superiorly positioned point of the external auditory meatus •Sometimes located by using the ear-rods of the cephalostat
Porion (Po)
What’s the red dot?
Pterygomaxillary fissure (PTM)
What’s the red dot?
Porion (Po)
•The most anterior point on the maxilla at the level of the palate. •The anterior tip of the sharp bony process of the maxilla at the lower margin of the anterior nasal opening.
Anterior nasal spine (ANS)
What’s the red dot?
Anterior Nasal Spine
•Deepest point on the curved bony outline between the ANS and Prosthion (Pr). •Deepest point on the curve of the bone between the ANS and dental alveolus.
A point (Sub-spinale)
What’s the red dot?
A point
•Lower most anterior point of alveolar process of pre-maxilla in the midline between two maxillary central incisors. •The most anterior inferior point on the maxillary alveolar process usually found near the CEJ of the maxillary central incisor.
Prosthion (Pr)
What’s the red dot?
Prothsion (Pr)
The most labial point on
the crown of the
maxillary central incisor.
Max Central Incisor (U1)
What’s the red dot?
Max central incisor (U1)
•The incisal tip of the most
anterior maxillary central
incisor.
Incision Superius Incisalis (Isi)
What’s the red dot?
Incision Superius Incisalis (Isi)