ORAL RADIOLOGY

GLAIR AUSTERO, RN DMD

01-26-24
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DOCTOR in the making!

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• No late comers. Doors will be closed.

• Prepare 1 whole sheet of paper q meeting.
• Notebook. Same size.
• Groupings
• Honest Doctors will have rewards!
 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Radiology = study and use of radiant energy including Roentgen
rays, radium and radioactive isotopes as applied to medicine and dentistry.

Roentgenology is the study and use of Roentgen rays as applied to medicine

and dentistry.

Radiography is the production of a photographic image of an object

through the use of X-rays.

Radiation is the process of transfer of energy from one point to another in

the form of electromagnetic waves, e.g. light, radio waves, X-rays,.
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 DEFINITION OF TERMS
Matter - is anything that occupies space has mass. It can exist in
three states: solid, liquid and gas.

Atom - fundamental unit an element. It has central nucleus of

protons and neutrons and negatively charged electrons orbiting
around it.

Atomic number is the distinguishing number of protons in the

nucleus of an atom. At rest position, number of electrons =
number of protons.

Atomic mass number denotes the total number of protons and

neutrons, in the nucleus.
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 ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY

•1895,

• Prof. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

• professor of Physics
• University of Wurtzberg, Germany
• Crook tube /barium platinocyanide screen in-between
detect image of bones
• Black paper- established the property of penetration.

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 FIRSTS
radiograph = Bertha's hand. =15 minutes
dental X-ray = Otto Walkhoff. = 25 mins
intraoral X-ray = Dr. Edmund Kells in 1896.

harmful effects of X-rays

• skin ulcerations
• necrosis
• malignancies and underwent mutilating surgeries.

Sir Rollins ="Father of radiation protection".

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PASS 10:45AM

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