Is dentistry through with film?
Film is the top choice for a full-mouth radiographic series. While cost and computer dependency are no longer major obstacles to using filmless radiography (FR), many clinicians still are reluctant to adopt the newer method because they are concerned about its diagnostic efficacy. Those concerns are not borne out in recent dental literature. FR's diagnostic capabilities and beneficial properties, which include decreased patient radiation exposure and nominal time needed to view an X-ray image, may have helped it surpass film as the modality of choice for some aspects of dental radiography, particularly procedures requiring selective periapical radiographic analysis.
Cabrini Medical Center, USA.
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