Excellent dental diagnostics is a requirement for good dental care

The four cornerstones for excellent dental diagnoses are:

Anamnes, Clinical examination, Microbiological tests and X-ray examination.

A great deal of the unhealthy changing in tooth and oral tissue is not possible to detect with the naked aye. Therefore different diagnostic means must be used. One of the most important is x-ray.

In order to let the x-ray examination create good scientific elements for the diagnostics and to be the basis for good dental care the x-ray examination must be carried through with the best technical means available. A basic objective for x-ray diagnostics is that all information shall be collected using the lowermost radiation possible. The radiation dose can easily become unsatisfactory high if not special radiation-dose-saving measures is used. Useful diagnostic information of high value is obtained with low radiation dose only if the x-ray examination is carried out using perfect technical means and equipment. PERIO RAY Bite Wing has all necessary performance to obtain perfect x-ray pictures.

The main goal for the diagnostics is to obtain information so that the best method of treatment can be choosed Many dental diseases in tooth and tissue can only be detected by the use of x-ray. X-ray examination is therefore essential for the choose of method for treatment. X-ray examination is also of great value for the control of the result of the treatment and should be recognised as a method for preventive dental care of caries and periodontosis.

Unsatisfactory quality of x-ray examination can seriously diminishing the value of the diagnose and also give the patient an unnecessarily high radiation dose. When using proper means and methods for x-ray examination the risk for unnecessarily high dose of radiation is minimised.

The early interdental caries affect is difficult to detect and diagnose because of the difficulties to discover the affect with the naked eye and because of the difficulties to probe. Therefore x-ray examination using vertical Bite Wing is a most important means to diagnose interdental caries. By early diagnostics, annual control and preventive measures filling treatment can be avoided.

The marginal dentition level on view and its position in the x-ray picture is not only affected by the anatomy of the oral cavity but also of the alignment of the x-ray beam. In order to get the best x-ray picture possible of the marginal dentition level the x-ray beam should be perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the tooth. In the molar and premolar regions the best projection is obtained with Vertical Bite Wing pictures. If anamnes and the clinical examination indicates the possibility of periodontosis Vertical Bite Wing should be used to guarantee the best basis of information for the diagnose.

A precise positioning of the x-ray film by using PERIO RAY Bite Wing with its Indicator Arm permitting a standardised vertical alignment gives the best opportunities to reiterate x-ray examinations with the same geometrical conditions even if long time elapses between the examinations.

A functional model, for diagnostic follow-up by means of x-ray Bite Wing examinations, is as follows.