Digital Imaging Methods?

In dentistry, diagnosis is of great importance for the success of the treatment to be applied. In diagnosis, radiographic examination is as essential as clinical examination.

Traditional radiographic examination methods (periapical films, panoramic images) do not always provide sufficient information for diagnosis. In such cases, digital imaging methods come into play.

Digital imaging methods frequently used in dentistry:

• 1) 3D dental tomographies: Tomography is a 3D imaging system that allows the examination of soft tissues, jaw bones and their structures in the most realistic way with low radiation levels.

• 2)Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a technique that uses magnetic fields and radio waves to create detailed images of organs and tissues in the body. Most MRI machines are large, tube-shaped magnets. When you go inside an MRI machine, the magnetic field temporarily rearranges the hydrogen atoms in your body. MRI is often used to diagnose diseases or monitor response to treatment. Unlike X-rays and CT scans, MRIs do not use radiation. They are most often used in dentistry to diagnose and treat joint diseases.

• 3) Ultrasonographic imaging (ultrasound): sound waves have many uses in technology and medicine. One of these is ultrasonography, a medical imaging method that allows general visualization of the tissues and organs in the interior of the body with the help of sound waves. With this application, sound waves with a frequency much higher than the human ear can perceive are given to the body and an image of the examined area is obtained by calculating the return times. It is mostly used in dentistry for the diagnosis and treatment of salivary gland diseases.

Digital Dentistry

What is Digital Dentistry?

Digital dentistry is a technology system that uses 3D scanner and printer systems (CAD/CAM).

In Which Branches Is Digital Dentistry Used Most?

Digital dentistry is used particularly in the production of prosthetic restorations and the planning of surgical treatment.

What are the advantages of digital dentistry?

Advantages of digital dentistry:

• Ensuring near-perfect compatibility with 3D scanning systems

• Elimination of laboratory time and delivery of new prostheses on the same business day

• Elimination of errors that may occur during the laboratory phase

• It ensures that errors are minimized in surgical procedures.

What is Digital Measurement?

Digital measurement is the process of taking thousands of images per second of the mouth, soft tissues and teeth with a fiber optic camera that can be moved in the mouth and converting these images into a 3D structure through the software on the device to which the fiber optic camera system is connected.

Advantages:

• It prevents dimensional changes seen in impression materials used in traditional methods.

• It prevents laboratory errors that may occur while obtaining a plaster model.

• Provides comfort for the patient.

• It saves time for the patient and the physician.

What is Digital Design?

Digital design is the conversion of the digital measurement into 3D by software and then preparation of the 3D model on the computer in terms of size, shape and color.

Advantages:

• The program produces veneers that best suit the patient's occlusion.

• Reduces the time the dentist spends adapting the veneer

• Reduces the number of fitting sessions that the patient must attend

• Veneers can be produced according to the aesthetic taste of the physician and the patient.