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CT scanning is quietly revolutionising the practice of Implant Dentistry. Traditionally implants were placed using two dimensional radiographs together with physical investigations like ridge mapping and palpation of bony structures through the soft tissues. The profession now appreciates that these techniques are highly inaccurate and in many areas of the mouth they are impossible to use. As a result dental implant surgery used to involve large flaps to visualise the whole surgical field.
The increased visualisation of anatomical structures through CT scanning vastly reduces the mobidity involved with surgery because of the practice of key-hole or flapless surgery, leading to less stress for the implant surgeon and much less afterpain for the patient.
A low resolution ten second CT scan radiates the patient less than a single traditional DPT – when should you not scan your patient?
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