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A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report

PURPOSE: Panoramic radiographs taken using conventional chin-support devices have often presented problems with positioning accuracy and reproducibility. The aim of this report was to propose a new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients that better addresses these two i...

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Autores principales: Park, Jong-Woong, Symkhampha, Khanthaly, Huh, Kyung-Hoe, Yi, Won-Jin, Heo, Min-Suk, Lee, Sam-Sun, Choi, Soon-Chul
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Publicado: Korean Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26125007
http://dx.doi.org/10.5624/isd.2015.45.2.117
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author Park, Jong-Woong
Symkhampha, Khanthaly
Huh, Kyung-Hoe
Yi, Won-Jin
Heo, Min-Suk
Lee, Sam-Sun
Choi, Soon-Chul
author_facet Park, Jong-Woong
Symkhampha, Khanthaly
Huh, Kyung-Hoe
Yi, Won-Jin
Heo, Min-Suk
Lee, Sam-Sun
Choi, Soon-Chul
author_sort Park, Jong-Woong
collection PubMed
description PURPOSE: Panoramic radiographs taken using conventional chin-support devices have often presented problems with positioning accuracy and reproducibility. The aim of this report was to propose a new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients that better addresses these two issues. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A new panoramic radiography bite block similar to the bite block for dentulous patients was developed to enable proper positioning stability for edentulous patients. The new bite block was designed and implemented in light of previous studies. The height of the new bite block was 18 mm and to compensate for the horizontal edentulous space, its horizontal width was 7 mm. The panoramic radiographs using the new bite block were compared with those using the conventional chin-support device. RESULTS: Panoramic radiographs taken with the new bite block showed better stability and bilateral symmetry than those taken with the conventional chin-support device. Patients also showed less movement and more stable positioning during panoramic radiography with the new bite block. CONCLUSION: Conventional errors in panoramic radiographs of edentulous patients could be caused by unreliability of the chin-support device. The newly proposed bite block for panoramic radiographs of edentulous patients showed better reliability. Further study is required to evaluate the image quality and reproducibility of images with the new bite block.
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spelling pubmed-44836182015-06-29 A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report Park, Jong-Woong Symkhampha, Khanthaly Huh, Kyung-Hoe Yi, Won-Jin Heo, Min-Suk Lee, Sam-Sun Choi, Soon-Chul Imaging Sci Dent Technical Report PURPOSE: Panoramic radiographs taken using conventional chin-support devices have often presented problems with positioning accuracy and reproducibility. The aim of this report was to propose a new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients that better addresses these two issues. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A new panoramic radiography bite block similar to the bite block for dentulous patients was developed to enable proper positioning stability for edentulous patients. The new bite block was designed and implemented in light of previous studies. The height of the new bite block was 18 mm and to compensate for the horizontal edentulous space, its horizontal width was 7 mm. The panoramic radiographs using the new bite block were compared with those using the conventional chin-support device. RESULTS: Panoramic radiographs taken with the new bite block showed better stability and bilateral symmetry than those taken with the conventional chin-support device. Patients also showed less movement and more stable positioning during panoramic radiography with the new bite block. CONCLUSION: Conventional errors in panoramic radiographs of edentulous patients could be caused by unreliability of the chin-support device. The newly proposed bite block for panoramic radiographs of edentulous patients showed better reliability. Further study is required to evaluate the image quality and reproducibility of images with the new bite block. Korean Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology 2015-06 2015-06-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4483618/ /pubmed/26125007 http://dx.doi.org/10.5624/isd.2015.45.2.117 Text en Copyright © 2015 by Korean Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Technical Report
Park, Jong-Woong
Symkhampha, Khanthaly
Huh, Kyung-Hoe
Yi, Won-Jin
Heo, Min-Suk
Lee, Sam-Sun
Choi, Soon-Chul
A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report
title A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report
title_full A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report
title_fullStr A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report
title_full_unstemmed A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report
title_short A new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: A technical report
title_sort new bite block for panoramic radiographs of anterior edentulous patients: a technical report
topic Technical Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4483618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26125007
http://dx.doi.org/10.5624/isd.2015.45.2.117
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