For Doctors

Whether you just want to order a scan, or you want to take it all the way to using a surgical guide, Advanced Dental Imaging Center can make it all happen.    If you are new to all of this, start by attending one of our seminars to see what it is all about. Just click on a date on the Free Seminars link on the right side of the home page to sign up.

At our seminars, we will take a free scan of you or one of your staff and allow you to take part in a hands-on experience  where you will learn how to manipulate the scan and extract the data you need. If you really don't care to learn about how to manipulate the scans and would rather have a radiologist interpret the data for you, that can be done also. We can even have a  surgical guide made that fits over the patient's present teeth and takes the guesswork out of angulation and placement of the implant. There are tools that allow you to measure the density of the bone in Hounsfield Units at any location. This is very helpful, for example, if a bone graft has been done and you want to make sure that the site is fully integrated.

Use of the scans

We have a full menu of options. Our outsourcing company has a lot of expertise in many areas regarding the ICAT scan. Just tell us what you need and we will see to it that things are done the way you like them. We are all about customer service, so if you don’t see it on the “menu”, just ask. From the processing of your scan all the way to placing an implant or making a 3D movie to show the patient in a presentation, we want you to feel that our assistance has been of great value.

Indications of CBCT in the Maxillofacial Region

• Evaluation of the jaw bones to assess the feasibility of placing dental implants at specific sites in the jaws. This ensures that every possible precaution has been made to reduce the risk of involvement of the nerves in the lower jaw, and the sinuses and nose in the upper jaw.
• Evaluation of the status of previously placed implants
• Evaluation of the hard tissue (bones) of the tempro-mandibular joint (TMJ)
• Evaluation of abnormalities (pathology) in or affecting the bones
• Evaluate extent of alveolar ridge resorption
• Assessment of relevant structures prior to orthodontic treatment such as the presence and position of impacted canine and third molar teeth
• Assessing symmetry of the face (cephalometrics)
• Assessing the airway space (sleep apnea)
• To permit 3D reconstructions of the bones or the fabrication of a Biomodel of the face and jaws
• Assessing the mandibular nerve prior to the removal of impacted teeth, especially the lower wisdom teeth

Specific Applications

• Oral Surgery
• Implant planning
• Orthodontic planning, implant anchorage
• Cephalometric Analysis
• TMJ analysis
• Airway study (sleep apnea)
• Jaw Tumor
• Impacted teeth
• Periodontal disease
• Endodontic anomalies

Radiation

An i-CAT scan exposes a patient to about 67 microsievers, which is about half of the amount that one gets from a full set of X-Rays.

Time

A scan takes anywhere from 8 to 20 seconds, depending on VOXEL (a volumated pixel) size. A 20 second scan has more detail than an 8 second scan.