Comparison and Analysis of Dental Imaging Techniques

Dental Imaging Using X-Rays

One of the best biomedical field accomplishments with the examination of vacuum tubes in the nineteenth century, prompted the disclosure of x-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen. Analysts doing research on x - rays experienced repeated radiation which harmed the tissues. Today the innovation has enhanced on the x-ray hardware, photographic film and its advanced strategies are utilized for different medical applications.

In 1895, Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen made an attempt to investigate the cathode beams. He found that the x-rays could enter thick materials to varying degrees. Combining the information that specific materials would assimilate the light emission beams when put in its way, Roentgen exhibited that a picture of dense object could be caught on the photographic plate (Davis, 1981; Dhaliwal, Singh, Kapila & Rajput, 2012).

The revelation of the unknown beams in the year 1895 denoted a novel period in the field of dental surgery. In dental surgery, significant advancement was accomplished through the new potential outcomes of a radiological examination. The primary skiagraph (a photographic picture created on a radiosensitive surface by radiation other than unmistakable light - particularly by X-rays or gamma beams) of the tooth was introduced by Professor Koenig in the month of February, 1896, to the Frankfurt Society of Physics during. During the month April, of that year, Dr. Walkhoff exhibited numerous skiagraphs of the teeth in the human subject at the Congress of Erlangen. Dr. W. J. Morton has written a research article which became visible in June 1896 at the Dental Cosmos, on “The X-rays and their Application in Dentistry” (Friedman & Friedland, 1998). In the next few years, radiographs emerged and were utilized for the therapeutic analysis and dental conditions, for treatment using x-rays and for technical research (Dhaliwal, Singh, Kapila & Rajput, 2012).