Intraoral Imaging Techniques: Beyond the Textbook

The purpose of this course is to provide practical ‘hands-on’ information to students and clinicians for successful intraoral imaging with digital sensors. In addition, this course will briefly review the basics of intraoral imaging, but most importantly will go beyond those basics by highlighting common difficulties with sensors and providing solutions to help the dental professional produce high-quality diagnostic images. Numerous photographs and radiographic images are embedded in the text to enhance the mastery of the material.

There are numerous textbooks that thoroughly teach intraoral technique, it is anticipated that the learner will have a working knowledge as they begin this course, which will include basic imaging in discussions of modifications of techniques. The clinician will learn to assess the instrument system setup before pressing the exposure button with a critical evaluation of the horizontal and vertical angulations as dictated by the rod-and-ring alignment system used. There are multiple textbook resources available for intraoral technique instruction.^{1, 2} There are also many short videos available on electronic media, but ‘buyer beware’, as all videos are not accurate or complete.

Course link: https://www.dentalcare.com/en-us/ce-courses/ce660