Dental CT Scan is an imaging procedure for radio logical diagnosis that goes well beyond conventional radio graphs. Computerized axial tomography (CAT) is capable of reproducing both the bones and soft tissues of the mouth. It generates images in three dimensions, of incalculable value for dental diagnosis.

What is a Dental CT scan test?

Dental CT scan is a painless and extraordinarily rapid test. The patient places his head on the equipment and in a single shot of less than 30 seconds. An x-ray beam that rotates around his face takes hundreds of images of all the anatomical structures of the same: bones, muscles, blood vessels and nerves. These tomographs are sent to a computer system, where they are processed to generate an authentic 3D computerized replica of the patient's mouth.

With this test, which allows the dentist to make bi and three-dimensional “cuts” to observe in detail any element. The dentist can obtain all kinds of information about the patient's mouth: quality and density of the bone, through which the nerves and vessels pass blood.

Advantages of Dental CT Scan

In practice, It is a great advance over conventional panoramic radiographs (also known as orthopantomographs). Above all, it increases the precision of the implant study necessary before the intervention to solve the dental absence.

Thanks to the precision offered by the dental CT scan, an implantologist can plan the operation in detail. The implantological technique of immediate loading, in which the patient leaves the clinic with the implant and the crown. In the same appointment, would be practically impossible without one of these teams.

Security in Dental Scan

Although based on hundreds of rapid radiographs, It is a completely safe test for the patient. Exhibition that, however, is sufficient to capture with a huge level of detail all bone structures and soft tissues of the patient's mouth.

However, the fact that it is based on X-rays advises that pregnant women undergo this imaging technique for diagnosis. They should wait to give birth so as not to cause possible harm to the fetus.