Dental CBCT machines confer numerous advantages on practices that adopt that, expanding potential service offerings, enabling high quality 3D dental imaging, and reducing radiation exposure to the area of interest. Dental CBCT machines also offer rapid scan times and some even utilize artifact-reducing imaging software, minimizing the need for retakes and boosting workflow efficiency – among other benefits.
As a result of these considerations (and others) dental cone beam computed tomography is quickly becoming the new standard of care for dentists and specialists. This short post will take a closer look at some of CBCT’s applications in dental practices.
Applications in General Dentistry and Beyond
The 3D image quality of CBCT machines breaks free of the limitations of 2D digital imaging produced by panoramic scans, affording some of the following applications:
- Virtual treatment planning: Because of the extremely detailed scans produced by CBCT machines, this technology can be used for virtual treatment planning purposes, and can specifically be indispensable for the creation of surgical guides. CBCT may also empower greater patient visualization, resulting in higher rates of treatment acceptance.
- Implantology: Replacing a missing or diseased tooth with a dental implant requires precise location selection and evaluation. Successful implant placement is necessary to avoid injury and ensure long-term success. Extremely detailed, high-quality CBCT images show both hard and soft tissues, offering unparalleled detail of surrounding anatomical structures. The use of CBCT machines in implant dentistry has considerable potential to reduce implant failure. It’s also highly useful for postsurgical implant assessment.
- Oral and maxillofacial surgery: CBCT machines enable precise measurement of surface distances for the evaluation of midfacial and orbital fractures; they also empower surgeons to perform intraoperative visualization of maxillofacial bones, as well as to navigate procedures. Moreover, since CBCT images produce highly detailed views of soft tissues, they can capture and identify pathologies such as tumors and cysts as well as their precise locations. CBCT can also be used for post-surgical evaluation of bone graft sites.
- Orthodontics: The highly detailed and superimposition-free images produced by CBCT machines are ideal for morphometric analysis of anatomy and structures for the purposes of meeting various orthodontic demands. Some orthodontic use cases for CBCT imaging include palatal bone thickness, dental age estimation, impacted tooth visualization, and alveolar bone width.
- Endodontics: CBCT machines are far more effective for the purposes of periapical lesion assessment than 2D systems. CBCT scans can be used to determine lesion location relative to other structures such as the maxillary sinus and mandibular canal, and may even be effective for classifying the source of the lesion.
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