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How We Get the Best Results with Digital X-Rays

Thursday, August 20th, 2015

4225775_blogAt City Dental Leeds, we are always looking to the future and are committed to continual investment in equipment and technology to ensure our clients get the best possible treatment. We are delighted to offer cutting edge treatments and use advanced digital X-rays to carry out treatment accurately and effectively.

About digital X-rays

Digital X-rays are a modern alternative to traditional X-rays, which use photographic film to produce images. Digital X-rays use digital sensors. These are more environmentally friendly and safer for both dentists and patients. Digital X-rays offer a host of benefits and enable us to make diagnoses and plan treatment effectively and quickly.

We use digital X-rays in dentistry to detect symptoms and signs, determine the nature and severity of dental injuries and plan treatment such as orthodontics and dental implant placement.

What are the advantages of digital X-rays?

The main advantage of digital X-rays is that they are safer than traditional X-rays, as they emit a much lower dose of radiation. Additional benefits include increased speed and efficiency, higher levels of accuracy and improved versatility. Digital images can be enlarged, shared and uploaded and we can send them over to other dental professionals easily and quickly if required. The images are also incredibly detailed and this enables us to show patients what exactly is going on and how treatment will benefit them, providing a greater understanding of dental problems and ensuring peace of mind.

Forwards and upwards with a Digital X-ray in the City of Leeds

Sunday, September 15th, 2013

1850575_blogThere is no doubt about the way that technology has advanced over the past 30 years and the affects have bled into every walk of life, from commerce to the medical world: computers, lasers and the like have definitely shaken things up for the better and this has had a huge impact on the dental world as well. Since all this technology has entered the dental surgery, patients have benefited from this all around the world- and in the city of Leeds. There is no finer example of this as with the digital x-ray: X-rays are brilliant anyway; they have given doctors and dentists the chance to diagnose their patients with precision. However, since they have gone digital, it has enabled the medical profession to make decisions in seconds. When you pop in for a dental check-up, you will be x-rayed in order to ascertain if things have gone wrong; this is flashed up on a computer screen in a matter of seconds enabling your dentist to get to work on you straight away. The images can be stored on a computer for historical reasons and if they need to be referenced, all it takes is a push of a button and by the power of e-mail, your dentist can send them off for a second opinion if needed. All of this means that as a patient, you are in damn good hands!

The Delightful Digital X-ray in the City of Leeds

Friday, March 16th, 2012

A lot of treatments are at their most effective if a diagnosis is made quickly. Some problems are obvious, but some conditions lay deeper below the gum line and so require an X-ray in order to make a full analysis of the problem.

In the past, X-rays could take a while to process and during this time, the problem could be worsening. They were also notoriously difficult to store due to their physical size, which didn’t help matters. Thankfully, most dentists around the city of Leeds these days are blessed with digital X-ray technology and it is a godsend for helping make a rapid diagnosis.

Digital X-rays works in a similar way to traditional X-rays in the sense that the image is taken in a similar way, but once taken, it is fed into a computer and an instant picture is flashed up onto a screen. This can highlight the extent of tooth decay, gum disease or periodontal problems, by colour coding and even a 3-D image can be projected so that repairs can be started immediately.

The images can be stored easily on a disc and retrieved at the touch of a button. Even better, they can be sent immediately to other people who specialise in a certain field for an instant diagnosis. It is just one of the perfect examples of how technology is helping to keep our teeth healthy.