Digital X-Rays are Explained by Shelby Township Dentist
Hi, this is Dr. Antolak from thegentledentist.com in Shelby Township, Michigan and our number’s (586) 247-3500. One thing I’ve been using for the last, gosh, I think it’s been around 6 or 7 years, is digital x-rays. Digital x-rays are very interesting. And they’re becoming more state of the art. But not every dental office uses them. And this is called a digital sensor. It is made out of micro. There’s very small processors inside of this. And this hooks up to our computer. We put a sleeve, a disinfection sleeve over that and use that to take an x-ray. That x-ray appears after only about 2 seconds, after that x-ray appears on our monitor, the nice part is we can manipulate it. We can turn it different colors, we can increase the contrast with it and the nice thing is too, is that it only takes about; maybe 20% of the radiation that the regular film type of x-ray takes. There are very helpful when we do, let’s say place an implant and we want to check angulation of something. Or, if we’re doing a root canal where we remove, where we want to check the length of what something that we call file so it ends property and its very convenient also because we get an instant feedback if something needs to be changed on it so this is just one of the things that we do in our office to help with radiation safety. Obviously we still use a lead vest that goes over your whole chest. So, you basically get no radiation at that level to affect you and your body. We also use digital x-rays. We also have a digital panorex machine which goes around your head and captures your entire jaw, including the jaw joint, the wisdom teeth, and things like that will reduce radiation at that time too.
Digital X-Rays are Explained by Shelby Township Dentist
So if this is something that you like to have technology used with you, so it can benefit you, and so that we can not only create high technology, but also high touch where we can really care about you, just give us a call at 586-247-3500. Thank you.
