Dental X-rays help detect cavities, bone loss, and infections. Learn about their types, safety, and role in diagnosing oral health issues.

A dentist would need to probe your tooth or even take an X-ray of your teeth to find it. At some point, a cavity will begin to make itself known to you.

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Dec. 2, 2011 -- By the time a dentist finds a cavity, that tooth has been through several stages of a chronic infectious disease called dental caries, where acids dissolve tooth enamel, letting ...

A bitewing radiograph or X-ray may also be used to detect tooth decay. Such X-rays can help detect small lesions of tooth decay that have not yet caused cavities or holes.

The X-ray machine is positioned alongside your head to record images of your mouth. Some dental practices have a separate room for X-rays, while others perform them in the same room as cleanings ...

A new dental imaging system that can help dentists see tooth decay earlier and in greater detail has received regulatory clearance and is expected to be commercially available by the end of the ...

When the dental filling procedure is complete, it is important for the dentist to spend some time with the patient to discuss how decay can be prevented from forming underneath or near the filling.

With traditional dental screenings, X-ray analysis is used for diagnosis and treatment planning — but 50% of dental decay is missed and 30% results in wrongful diagnosis, he also said.

Pediatric dentists don't X-ray baby teeth unless they suspect tooth decay or need to examine the root of a baby tooth. It's best that young children do not have X-rays unless it's medically necessary.

Several patients in Slovakia have recently raised concerns about dental clinics demanding payment for X-ray imaging as a condition for receiving a preventive dental check-up. The Office of the Public ...

The association's guidelines from 2012 recommended that adults who don't have an increased risk of dental caries (myself included) need only bitewing X-rays of the back teeth every two to three years.