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Module 3B

Text Chapter 24
The Edentulous Client
4 Reasons Why Radiographs
Would Benefit
Edentulous or Partially
Edentulous Clients
1.

Detect presence of:


Root tips, impacted
teeth and lesions

http://www.arthurdental.com/gallery57.html

http://www.giovannimariagaeta.it/index.php?
option=com_content&view=article&id=109:leukoplakiaoral&catid=36:patol
ogiaorale&Itemid=119,
April 2013.
2.

To observe quantity and


quality of bone that is present

The Next DDS, 2014.


http://www.thenextdds.com/clinicalimages.aspx?y=1&t=p
3.
 Establish position of normal anatomic landmarks
relative to the crest of the alveolar ridge

From: Johnson, McNally, Essay: Essentials of dental radiography, 7 th ed. (New Jersey, 2003, Pearson Education, Inc.
4.

To identify objects embedded in


bone

Journal of Oral & Maxillofacial Research


http://www.ejomr.org/JOMR/archives/2011/3/e5/v2n3e5ht.htm
3 Common Radiographic Examinations
Used for Edentulous Clients

http://ispub.com/IJFP/9/1/10045A Hooda, M Rathee. The Internet Journal of Family


Practice. 2009 Volume 9 Number 1.
Most common examination is?

The Next DDS, 2014


http://www.thenextdds.com/clinicalimages.aspx?y=2
 Receptor size 2
 (6 Ant’s, 8 Post’s)

Olsen SS: Dental radiography laboratory manual,


Philadelphia, 1995, Saunders.
 Combined examination or Occulusal-Periapical Examination
Edentulous Modifications
 With all edentulous clients, must estimate and visualize best
receptor placement due to absence of…
 Easiest radiographic method for edentulous client is a?

http://ispub.com/IJFP/9/1/10045A Hooda, M Rathee.


The Internet Journal of Family Practice. 2009 Volume
9 Number 1.
PARALLELING

Edentulous Modifications

Images from Thomson, & Johnson, 2012


BISECTING

Edentulous Modifications
 If bisecting is only option (severe resorption): center of interest is no
longer the long axis of the teeth rather perpendicular to the
imaginary bisector
 Vertical angles will be increased due to the shallow alveolar
ridges

http://www.glidewelldental.com/dentist/inclusive/volume2-2/
immediate-loading-implants.aspx, 2014

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