 TOPIC: CYSTS OF THE JAW 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Dentigerous Cyst: Dentigerous cysts develop around the crown of an impacted or embedded unerupted or supernumerary tooth. Cysts may undergo neoplastic transformation to an ameloblastoma called muralameloblastoma and mucoepidermoid carcinoma. 🔹Dentigerous Cyst appears as a well-defined radiolucency with sclerotic borders. Radiographically, the dentigerous cyst […]
 TOPIC: DENTAL CARIES 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Interproximal Caries: Interproximal caries begin just below the contact point, and it has a small notched radiolucent appearance on the radiograph. Clinically, there is a white spot lesion which is slightly roughened due to demineralisation. 🔹Incipient Interproximal Caries: The carious lesion often forms a classical V-shaped or […]
TOPIC: RADIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF INFLAMMATORY LESIONS 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔸Periodontal Ligament Space: Accumulation of inflammatory exudates in the connective tissue of the periodontal ligament causes oedema and this causes widening in the periodontal ligament space. The non-pathological reasons for widening of periodontal ligament space are terminal stage of root formation. 🔸Lamina Dura: Loss […]
TOPIC: PERIODONTAL IMAGING AND DISEASES 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔸Technique Used: The standard exposure technique for periodontal imaging procedures is undoubtedly the intraoral radiography using a strict paralleling technique. 🔸Digital Radiography: In digital radiography dedicated software for periodontal filtering may offer an optimised image to inspect crestal cortication, lamina dura and periodontal ligament space. […]
 TOPIC: TEETH ANOMALIES 🌟IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔸MACRODONTIA AND MICRODONTIA: Teeth are larger than normal in macrodontia. 🔸AMELOGENESIS IMPERFECTA: It has various types – hypoplastic type (enamel of the affected teeth fails to develop to its normal thickness), hypomaturation type (enamel shows a mottled appearance; it is softer than normal and appears cloudy white, yellow […]
CONTRAST AGENTS 🌟IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Definition: Contrast agents is defined as radiopaque substances that have been developed to alter artificially the density of different parts of the patient, thus altering the subject contrast. 🔹Requirement of Contrast Media: The contrast media should be adequately radiopaque to show good contrast. They should be viscous enough that […]
OUTDATED SPECIALISED TECHNIQUES 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Conventional Tomography is the process by which an image of layer within the body is produced while images of structures lying above and below that layer are made invisible by blurring. It is also called body section radiography. 🔹There are two types of basic design used in […]
IMAGE-GUIDED THERAPY 🌟IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔸VR: VR is based on computer graphics and special CAD planning and animation software for the creation of a computerised environment (or cyberspace) using the 3D image data of the patient. 🔸Medical RP: Medical RP is a technique for the manufacture of dimensionally accurate physical models of human anatomy […]
TOPIC : POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND FUSION IMAGING 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Principle Of PET: It relies on positron-emitting radionuclides generated in cyclotrons. FDG is a glucose analogue that enters the cell using the same uptake mechanism as normal glucose. Within the cell, FDG is phosphorylated by the enzyme hexokinase to 2-deoxyglucose-6-phosphate. 🔹Annihilation Radiation: […]
TOPIC: THERMOGRAPHY 🌟 IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBER 🔹Thermography is based on the ability to image the heat emission of the human body. It is a non-invasive objective, non-radiative tool that uses the heat from the body to diagnose the causes of a host of health-care conditions. 🔹Principles Of Thermography: All objects, including the human body […]
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