Introduction OPG: radiographic technique, indications, scanning, radioanatomy, most common pathologies

– Orthopantomography. Definition and description. Historical review

– Tomographic image layer

– Digital system detectors in panoramic radiographs. Features

– Indications for the panoramic imaging indications

– Advantages and disadvantages of panoramic images

– The procedure. Patient positioning. Tongue position. Mistakes during the procedure

– The neck extension

– Common artifacts:

- Ghost image

- Foreign bodies

- Metal artifacts

- Closing artifacts

- Motion artifacts

- Lead apron

- Incorrect tongue position.

– Anatomical landmarks: a detailed description of hard and soft tissues on the OPG

– Panoramic imaging indications

– Diagnostics problems requiring broad coverage of the jaws

– Review of different clinical situations on the OPG:

- Evaluation of trauma

- Location of wisdom teeth

- Extensive dental or osseous diseases

- Known or suspected large lesions

- Tooth development

- Retained teeth or root tips (in edentulous patients)

- TMJ problems which involve hard tissues (condyle)

- Developmental anomalies.

– Pathologies on the OPG:

- Cystic lesions

- Bening tumors

- Malignant tumors

- Fibro-osseus lesions

- Oseonecrosis (osteomyelitis/MRONJ/ORN).

– Considerations of different clinical cases.

Recommended for: Prosthodontists, Implantologists, Oral and maxillofacial surgeons, Functional dentists, Therapeutists, Endodontists, Pediatric dentists, Orthodontists, General dentists.