If you have a problem arise in your mouth with your teeth or gums, the way you can stop it from getting worse is to have it treated immediately, so time is of the essence here: most of these problems would have normally been spotted in an x-ray. In the past however, you’d normally have had to wait for the x-ray to be processed, in which time, the condition may well have worsened and seeing as every second can count, time could also be wasted whilst your dentist hunted down your x-ray in a filing vault at the back of the surgery and then hung it up for analysis. Today though, we are blessed with modern technology running wild in dental surgeries and this old style of x-raying has been replaced with a digital version. The process may appear the same on the surface in the way the image is taken, but that is where the similarities stop. Within seconds of you being x-rayed, the image is processed and comes up on a computer screen so that your dentist can make an instant diagnosis and get to work on you straight away. This also means that in the future, the images can be retrieved at the touch of a button. And, if your problem is complex and you require specialist treatment, the image can be e-mailed ahead so that you are ready to be treated when you turn up- beautiful technology, working for your oral health in the city of Leeds eh?