Computed tomography and its applications in Dentistry - literature review

Abstract

The tomography computadorizad has suffered a big rise in recent years among dentists, because with the advent of computed tomography cone beam which was manufactured in with purpose in head exams and neck and can display images in slices and in three dimensions, which makes your viewing is free of overlapping and distortion, and offers great advantages over other examinations already existing, standing out in most aspects when compared with other exams and with applicability in several dental areas, such as in Implantology, Periodontics, Oral Surgery, Endodontics and Orthodontics among others, and its newest applicability is rapid prototyping, which is nothing more is that the manufacture of biomodelos in 3D through computed tomography. The accuracy of cone beam computed tomography is demonstrated in several studies that show its efficiency in the diagnosis always with very fidelity to the anatomical region examined and image quality with relatively low dose of radiation compared to conventional computed tomography.