The Imaging System We Use
The i-CAT™ scanner is specially designed for dental use and its technology is known as Cone Beam CT (CBCT). It is non-invasive, comfortable, safe, quick, precise (accuracy, up to 0.1 mm) technique with amazing results guaranteed.
What is CBCT Scanning?
Cone beam CT provides high resolution, volumetric images that provide complete three-dimensional views of critical anatomy for more thorough analysis of bone structure and tooth orientation. Cone beam CT delivers accurate scans with images comparable to medical CTs with a much lower radiation dose, in-chair patient positioning (as opposed to a tunnel) and quicker scan times.
Cone beam CT is di erent from typical dental X-rays that focus on a small area to produce at, 2-D pictures. 3-D cone beam images provide more complete, accurate, and visual images to study your case, with greater accuracy and less radiation than ordinary medical CT machines. 3-D cone beam images can be duplicated and are always stored in case they are needed in the future.
This allows dental specialists to dramatically enhance their patient care in a variety of ways.
Main Applications of CT Imaging:
Dental Implants: 3D CT scans allow the surgeon and restorative dentist to optimally plan and place dental implants. Their uses and bene ts are present throughout the continuum of care from diagnosis to treatment to post-op examinations.
Orthodontic: Improve orthodontic diagnosis and treatment by providing the multiple projection perspective necessary to accurately assess tooth relationships and further support the objective interpretation of anatomy.
Impaction: CT delivers precise 3D views of impacted molars within the alveolar bone, location relative to adjacent teeth, and proximity to vital structures, such as the nerve canal, sinus walls, and cortical borders.
Analysis: CT detects and evaluates problems before they become serious by accurately measuring bone and jaw deformities, assessing bone lesions and changes of the jaw, and detecting other pathologies, such as cysts, tumours, and disease.
Air Way assessment: 3D data enhances airway assessment and can result in reconsideration of the treatment plan if the patient has a typical airway, versus a restricted airway, which may be susceptible to collapse
TMJ: 3D images allow the specialist to view critical structures for complete TMJ analysis and diagnosis clearly showing the condyles and surrounding structures, of bone morphology, joint space, and function all critical to TMJ dysfunction treatment and care.
"3-D Cone Beam images provide more complete, accurate and visual images to study your case."
