Radiographic Imaging in Implant Planning Flashcards
What are the imaging techniques used for implant placement?
- Periapical
- Pan
- CBCT
Periapical Imaging: Advantages vs disadvantages
- Advantages:
- High resolution
- readily available
- low cost
- low radiation exposure
- Disadvantages:
- Limited anatomic coverage
- Cannot assess Buccolingual
- Superimposition
- Elongation & Foreshortening
- Difficult to reproduce
When do we recommend to take a Periapical Image?
- Initial exam:
- single or short edentulous span
- intraoperative imaging
- post-op
- no problem
Panoramic Imaging: Advantages vs Disadvantages
- Advantages:
- Broad anatomical coverage
- Readily available
- low cost
- low radiation exposure
- Disadvantage
- lower resolution
- Cannot assess buccolingual
- Distortion
- Superimposition
- Technique sensitive
When do we recommend to take a Pan?
- Initial exam of multiple edentulous spaces
- Radiographic f/u of multiple implants
CBCT: Advantages vs Disadvantages
- Advantages
- getting more accessible
- variable field
- not superimposed
- Accurate Dimensions
- Simulate implant surgery w/software
- Disadvantages:
- Beam Hardening artifact
- Moderate:
- Financial Cost
- Radiation exposure
- Technique sensitive
- Not calibrated for bone density measurements
- Poor soft tissue contrast
- Special training to interpret
When do we recommend to take a CBCT?
- Pre-op exam
- before and after bone augmentation
- Post-op exam for symptomatic implants (peri-implantitis)
- not asymptomatic recall imaging
What should be apart of the Pre-op CBCT assessment and treatment planning?
- Bone quantity
- Bone Quality
- Vital anatomic structures
- Pathology
What are the vital anatomy of the maxilla and mandible?
- Maxilla
- nasopalatine canal
- Floor of nasal fossa
- Floor of maxillary sinus
- Mandible:
- Inferior Alveolar Canal
- Mental Foramen
- Lingual Foramen
- Submandibular Fossa
What pathology is contraindicated to implant placement?
- Cysts
- Benign tumors
- Malignant tumors
- Residual infection
- periapical
- osteomyelitis
- Cemento-osseous dysplasia
- Condensing osteitis
- Idiopathic Osteosclerosis
- Jaw fracture
How far should an implant be placed from vital structures?
- at least 2 mm away
Radiology recommendations for Dental Implantology cases
- PAN
- initial eval→ Best choice
- asymptomatic post op assessment of extensive implant cases
- PA
- supplement PAN info from initial exam
- asymptomatic post-op assessment
- CBCT
- do not use for:
- initial dx exam
- periodic review of asymptomatic implants
- any implant should include cross-sectional imaging orthogonal to planned site
- best choice
- Pre-op:
- site development,
- augmentation procedures
- bone reconstruction
- Post-Op
- Mobility
- Altered Sensation
- Retrieval
- do not use for:
Rules of using CBCT?
- performed only by:
- liscensed practitioners
- certified radiologist supervised by Licensed practitioner
What are the practitioners responsibilities when a CBCT is taken?
- Interpret the exam findings
- Qualified OMFRs can assist if dentist wont do
- Review all exposed tissue volume
- not just implant area
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- not just implant area
Radiographic Guides
- Shows proposed direction of implants
- used w/CT to see alveolar bone in the implant site