23/01/2025
Dentistry and oral surgery today are always accompanied by radiology and other diagnostic imaging methods. Almost every therapeutic procedure requires initial diagnostics, which should be based on classical X-ray diagnostics using radiovisiography and orthopantomography. Other key methods in this field include cone beam computed tomography, which provides three-dimensional diagnosis and is necessary for accurate treatment planning.
The combination of three-dimensional radiology with intraoral scanning technology enables treatment planning in a completely digital way. This allows the use of guides for increasingly more dental procedures (endodontics, endodontic microsurgery, dental surgery, and implantology, with particular emphasis on full arch approach restorations), which can be performed minimally invasively, with respect to tissue biology and with a reduction in the occurrence of postoperative complications.
Looking to the future, dental radiology will form the basis for the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic tools, e.g., dynamic navigation or AI planning.
Computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasonography play a pivotal role especially in oral oncology. Increasingly better imaging of the craniofacial space by 3D MRI or MDCT scanning is related to the better staging and treatment of pathological processes. There is also a place for image-guided minimally invasive procedures.
This Special Issue entitled 'State of the Art in Oral Radiology' will be dedicated to original papers and review articles, emphasizing the involvement of current diagnostic imaging methods in oral radiology for the diagnosis, planning, and treatment of reconstructive surgery and pathological lesions
Special Issue in journal Dentistry Journal: State of the Art in Oral Radiology
