Yes, it is one of the only tools to see a root canal infection that is just starting or has been small and unable to be identified by a typical dental X-ray.

Yes, absolutely. It allows us to see where your nerves are; to avoid potentially placing the implants into the nerve or right on top of the nerve and causing debilitating parasthesia (partial numbing). If a dentist doesn’t use a CBCT Scan to treatment plant the surgery placement of the dental implant, he could place the dental implant in a poor position or too close to a natural tooth, causing the natural tooth to die and the implant to fail. The CBCT scan makes everything safer and more predictable, and creates reliable clinical results increasing rates of success of the surgery and decreasing complications.

• Offers advanced 3D imaging within the practice
• Allows doctors to visualize anatomy that can not be diagnosed externally or in 2-dimensional images
• Safer – delivers less radiation to the patient than traditional CT scans; AMA ALARA compliant
• Open stand-up environment ensures patient comfort (not a closed laydown MRI style machine)
• Thorough diagnostic information (optimum view of the critical anatomy of all oral and maxillofacial structures)
• More precise treatment planning – confirm infections/disease process that necessitate treatment
• More predictable treatment outcomes and increases accuracy of diagnosis
• Reduces the length and cost of therapy
• Delivers quicker and easier image acquisition – scans takes only 20 seconds.

A cavitation is a jaw bone abnormally typically in an area of extraction, like a wisdom tooth, where the bone doesn’t form normally and the jaw area doesn’t heal properly. A dental cavitation is common term for “ischemic bone disease” or “sites of alternate healing” which means either an active infection or abnormal tissue growth in the bone of the maxilla or mandible. Ischemic Bone Disease aka “IBD” or cavitations are also called Chronic Ischemic Jawbone Disease – “CIBD”. At Natural Dentistry,  we often diagnose areas of abnormal bone as Fatty Degenerative Osteonecrosis of the Jaw – “FDOJ” Chronic ischemic bone disease is a name used to describe a disease process involving pathological changes in the bone tissue related to impaired blood flow (ischemia). In the jawbones these pathological changes are usually triggered by a combination of systemic and oral factors.