This week I have a neat case of a horizontally impacted tooth. While it’s not uncommon for teeth to be horizontally impacted, this tooth is sort of ‘hidden’. Look for the radiopaque rotated ‘V’ in the right mandible. The ‘V’ appearance is the enamel of the impacted tooth. There are also hearing aids evident on this pantomograph.
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Thanks a lot Dr. Shawneen
I just wanna ask about the Radiographic Interpretation of the right and left orbits… any clue?
The orbits are slightly more radiopaque due to the superimposition of the petrous ridges of the temporal bone and also the ghost images of the hearing aids. Is this what you are seeing?
What about the sinuses…
i mean in this OPG is there any other findings rather than the impaction and the hearing aids?
On the patients left side the inferior nasal concha is very prominent. It is superimposing over the sinus making it appear more radiopaque than the right maxillary sinus.
Is that what you were seeing?
Yes, Thanks very much..