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– Panoramic image assessment
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17. PANORAMIC IMAGE ASSESSMENT
Panoramic radiography is an exam of the maxillo-facial region normally used to view the dental
region inside the complete head and sinuses-orbital complex.
With a good panoramic exam, you can distinguish the main anatomic structures that are simplified
in the diagram below (which indicates only the main ones and is not complete).
Figure 34
Ref Anatomic structure
1 Palatal plane
2 Maxillary sinus
3 Maxilla and maxillary tuberosity
4 Temporo mandibular condyle
5 Ascending ramus of the TMJ
6 Coronoid process (overlap with maxilla)
7 Mandibular canal
8 Chin foramen
9 Anterior nasal spine
10 Nasal cavities
11 Ioid bone (normally duplicated)