Monthly Archives: January 2012

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Case of the Week: Horizontal Impaction 5

This entry was posted in Case of the week and tagged artifacts impacted tooth on January 6, 2012 by Dr. Shawneen Gonzalez

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 […]

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Cone Beam CT: Slice thickness

This entry was posted in CBCT and tagged CBCT slice thickness spatial resolution voxels on January 4, 2012 by Dr. Shawneen Gonzalez

Cone beam CT units have a range of slice thicknesses available.  Most units fall between 0.1 mm to 0.4 mm slice thickness.  There are units with smaller slice thickness available, however I am focusing on the 0.1 to 0.4 mm range for this post.  The first thing to understand is […]

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