IADR Abstract Archives

New Bitewing Film Holder versus Conventional Method

Objectives: Bitewing radiography is a so useful technique in dental disease assessment because its suitable horizontal beam angle and also the short film and object distance. Technical errors that can occur during this examination not only may cause misdiagnosis and in result incorrect treatment but also need to repeat the radiography and as a result unnecessary further patient exposure. The aim of this present study is to compare the conventional technique with the new film holder in radiograph errors and the acceptance of both techniques for clinician and patient.

Methods: Our cases were selected from patients who need bilateral bitewing radiographs. We took the graphs with conventional technique in one side and the new technique in the other side of the same patient for all 70 patients. Then the acceptance of clinician and patient were assessed by scale from 0 to 20.Furthermore the image quality were evaluated based on their overlaps, film positioning and cone cut that were recorded separately.

Results: In this study the clinician acceptance of new technique was more than the conventional technique (17/33 v 16/44). In contrast the patient acceptance of new technique was less than the conventional technique (13/37 v16/59), while in the new technique the cone cut & overlap errors were significantly lower than the conventional technique(p≤0.001);and the correct film positioning was than conventional method(p=0.005).

Conclusions: New method was more new acceptance for clinician and made lower diagnostic error but it had the fewer patient acceptance.

Iranian Division Meeting
2011 Iranian Division Meeting (Tehran, Iran)
Tehran, Iran
2011
89
Scientific Groups
  • Safi, Yaser  ( Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, N/A, Iran )
  • Sarani, Omid  ( School of Dentistry, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, N/A, Iran )
  • Rahimian, Sepideh  ( School of Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, N/A, Iran )
  • Shamloo, Nafiseh  ( Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, N/A, Iran )
    • Oral Session
    Oral Medicine, Pathology and Radiology
    12/29/2011