This week’s anatomy is a fun one that I enjoy quizzing the students on when doing interpretations with them in the clinic, granted they may not think it’s fun when their mind goes blank on the answer. For starters when identifying the zygomatic process of the maxilla it is important […]
This is the last post on air spaces on pantomographs; the glossopharyngeal air space. It presents as a radiolucent band superimposed over the angle of the mandible at the lateral aspects of the pantomograph. If the cervical vertebrae are visible, it is seen anterior to them. If you have any […]
This week is the air space superior and lateral to the palate (on the radiograph); the nasopharyngeal air space. It is seen as a radiolucent area superimposed over the ramus near the mandibular notch and neck of the condyle. If you have any questions or comments, please leave them below. […]
