A Complete View of Your Oral Health
The better view our dentists have of your mouth and surrounding areas, the better we can plan your custom treatment at 80 Park Avenue Dental. We use digital panoramic X-rays in New York to help Dr. Barry Sporer and Dr. Bradley J Cutler plan a wide range of treatments to improve your smile. To see how this technology can help you, call 80 Park Avenue Dental at 212-697-5988 today for your appointment.
Why Panoramic X-rays Are Important
In order to provide you with the best possible care, it is essential for our dentists to accurately evaluate and diagnose your oral health. One of the state-of-the-art tools we use to do that is panoramic X-rays. While standard X-rays, called bitewing X-rays, provide us with a view of a few teeth and the supporting bone structure, panoramic X-rays allow us to view the full upper and lower dental arches, including all of the teeth, the upper and lower jawbones, and the surrounding facial structures.
This broader perspective gives our team valuable insight into your overall oral health and helps us plan treatment with confidence.
What Panoramic X-rays Can Reveal
Using panoramic X-rays, our oral health professionals can:
- Assess the need for orthodontics and evaluate the progress of treatment
- Diagnose impacted wisdom teeth and other impacted teeth
- Analyze the development of periodontal disease
- Evaluate the TMJ (jaw joint) and diagnose a TMJ disorder
- Detect oral cancer
- Plan dental implant placement
- Diagnose cavities (tooth decay) and other dental problems
- Evaluate the extent of dental or facial trauma
- Detect abscesses, cysts, and tumors
Because one image captures so much detail, panoramic X-rays are a valuable tool for both prevention and treatment.
Fast, Comfortable, and Effective
Using the panoramic X-ray machine is fast and comfortable. The machine simply rotates around your head and provides our dentists with high-definition, nearly instantaneous images that we can then use to evaluate your oral health. We invite you to call or visit us today to learn more about panoramic X-rays.
This painless process takes only a few moments and allows us to make more informed treatment recommendations.