Imaging Techniques for Dental Implants: Review Article
Kaushik Kumar Pandey *
Department of Prosthodontics, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Abhishek Gaur
Department of Prosthodontics, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Pratibha Katiyar
Department of Prosthodontics, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Taseer Bashir
Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Pallavi Srivastava
Department of Prosthodontics, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Monika Srivastava
Private Practitioner, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Amrit Rai
Department of Prosthodontics, Career Post Graduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Lucknow, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
In modern era, dental implant supported prosthesis is first choice of the many patients and clinicians. Before going to opt the dental implant for patient, assessment of bone is prime requisite of clinician. It requires extensive radiographic examinations. In these days, many imaging techniques are popular like periapical, panoramic, lateral cephalometric, tomographic radiography, interactive computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging. In this review paper, various imaging techniques used for preoperative, operative and postoperative assessment of dental implant are discussed.
Keywords: Implants, dental, imaging, diagnostic