ANATOMY
The radiolucent outline around the root of a tooth
What is PDL space?
The most common technique error in bitewings
What is horizontal overlap?
Radiolucency, attached to the CEJ, most common developmental cyst
What is dentigerous cyst?
The most common inflammatory cyst
What is radicular cyst?
The type of dental x ray that emits the lowest amount of radiation
What is intraoral radiograph?
Dark area besides the canine, often mistaken for periapical radiolucency
What is the canine fossa?
Use this when taking difficult periapicals where perfect parallel technique cannot be done
What is bisecting angle technique?
The characteristic appearance of osteosarcoma
What is sun burst?
Multiple osteomas, supernumerary teeth, familial adenomatous polyposis
What is Gardner's Syndrome?
The x ray machine's tube that focuses the x ray beam
What is a collimator?
Radiolucency at the apices of maxillary molars, often mistaken for periapical radiolucency
What is the maxillary sinus?
Move the collimator to the mesial, buccal moves distal, lingual move mesial
What is SLOB? (same lingual opposite buccal)
Symmetrical radiolucency in the middle of the canal
What is internal root resorption?
Soap bubble appearance, resorbs root, locally aggressive
What is ameloblastoma?
Appropriate trimester to take dental x rays for pregnant patients
What is any?
Error when tooth and collimator are aligned, but the film is at an angle
What is elongation?
The name associated with disease of excessive growth of coronoid process, creating a pseudojoint
What is Jacob?
A calcified piece in the maxillary sinus
What is an antrolith?
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This type of MRI contrast help to visualize the TMJ articular disc
What is proton density?
This causes the outer rim of a pathology to be much more radiopaque than the more radiolucent center
What is the egg shell effect?
An object that describes the appearance of the pulp chamber in dentin dysplasia type II
French term for describing the ground glass appearance of fibrous dysplasia
What is "peau d'orange"?
Gy threshold for osteoradionecrosis
What is 60?