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Image 1. Digital panoramic of
a child about age 10 showing
normally developing and
positioned adult successor teeth.
There is some mild crowding.
No cone beam evaluation is
necessary for this assessment
of the mixed dentition.
Image captured by Planmeca
ProMax 3D CBVT device with
normal detector.
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Conventional X-ray image or Cone
– Why not
Why would you order a cone beam examination when
a simple, single high-quality panoramic image would suffice?
Why wouldn’t order a cone beam examination when
the task required it? If you have the Planmeca ProMax 3D
Cone Beam Volumetric Tomography (CBVT) device you
could do both – and only when they were indicated.
Dale A. Miles DDS, MS, FRCD(C)
Diplomate, American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
