What with how busy most of our lives are, any improvements that mean we can achieve things more quickly are most welcome. This has gradually been happening in dental surgeries over the years but a quantum leap has recently been made with the advent of digital x-rays, the use of which is becoming commonplace up and down the United Kingdom.
The traditional x-ray has been a staple of medical practice in general for many years but its functions are now being superseded by the digital version. Digital x-rays retain the advantages of traditional x-rays without the drawbacks. X-rays, whether digital or not, allow medical practitioners to essentially look inside a patient without the need for surgery.
The problem with traditional x-rays is that they only provide dentists and others with a flat, two dimensional view of things. Sometimes this is not adequate for the treatment because, of course, life does not exist in two dimensions. Often repeated x-rays were required to get varying vantage points on an object like a troublesome tooth. This was time consuming, especially as each individual x-ray would have to be sent to a specialist lab to be developed before analysis could take place by the professional.
Digital x-rays work in three dimensions and City of Leeds dentists can navigate the image and view the tooth from all angles from the one set of data that the digital x-ray provides. When this is combined with things like online milling machines, it means that patients can have things like porcelain dental veneers and crowns fitted in just one, short visit to the dental surgery. The reduction in lab fees means that costs of some procedures can actually fall as a result.
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