The days of lengthy, repeated visits to the dental surgery for some procedures are over. New technology is revolutionising the way that United Kingdom dentists can carry out their work and patients are feeling the benefits. It means that you need not take much time off work if you want to have some work done at the dental surgery. Find out how this is possible.
In quite a few dental procedures, it is necessary to have x-rays taken of your mouth. This is so that dentists can get a better view of what it is that they are working on. But the traditional x-ray proved to be problematic in several senses and scientists have now developed a better way to take x-rays.
The traditional x-ray only yielded images in two dimensions, meaning that they are flat, like a picture. Of course the real world exists in three dimensions so dentists would frequently have to take repeated x-rays in order to gain a fuller picture of what they are attempting to capture. This meant that the whole process was rather time consuming and patients would sometimes have to return to the dentist. What’s more, every x-ray had to be sent to a specialist lab for development before it could be used by the dentist.
Digital x-rays produce three dimensional data, allowing dentists to navigate the image on a computer screen from every angle. There is no longer any need to take repeated images and have them develop in a lab.
If you are thinking of having some work done at your dental surgery in the City of Leeds, ask your dentist how digital x-rays might speed up the process.
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