Role of CBCT scans in Dental Implant Treatment - Dr. Deepa Jayashankar|Doctors' Circle

Dr. Deepa Jayashankar | Appointment booking number: 8088058704,8088052704
Consultant Prosthodontist & Implantologist|ToothFirm-Dental Care & Implant Center, Bengaluru
Implant is screw which is placed inside the missing area into the bone and we are going to place a prosthetic portion into this drilled implant screw, the titanium screw, it require a lot of investigations to what kind of implant to place, what are the measurement of the implant and that is why we all mandatorily we advise the patient to undergo Cone beam Computerized Scan or a simple CBCT Scan. When we say a CBT Scan, it is going to give us 3 dimensional view of the associated anatomical structures of the missing area and also the important nerves and tissue and the blood vessels on the surface. As you can see in this picture, a patient with a missing front teeth and when we shoot a CBCT, you can see the position of the never bundle and the association with the bone we want to drill the implant. So it becomes very important for us to visualize before we place an implant in the missing area and similarly there is a scan of the upper jaw or the maxilla and is maxillary in the lower jaw, we do a scan in order to see the mandibular nerve approximity to the area of the missing tooth in order to drill these titanium implants.