Inferior Dental Nerve Case Studies

Case Studies involving Lingual Shelf

Inferior Dental Nerve - Potential Nerve Damage

Mrs KF from Chepstow (Gwent). A 2D image will suggest bone loss around the roots of this tooth, and give us some indication of whether the roots are straight, hooked or fused.

A cross-sectional image allows us to see clearlly that there is no bone support for this tooth (hence an easy extraction), and that the reduced height of bone above the IDN is compensated for by good width and density of bone, allowing us to place an implant of sufficient dimension to support a molar unit.

Case Study: Buried Root

Mr GD from Swansea (West Wales). Mr D was a self-referral and not aware of the buried canine in his upper left jaw...
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Case Study: Lingual Shelf

Mr AA from Newport (South Wales). From the 2-D image (DPT view) it appears that there is plenty of bone height above the...
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Case Study: Endodontic

Mrs AE from Usk (Monmouthshire). A two dimensional image of this tooth would not show the true extent of the roof-fracture...
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Case Study: Maxillary Sinus

Mr NM from Crickhowelll (Powys). The 2D OPT image for Mr M helped us realise the extent of the maxillary sinuses and the resulting lack of bone height...
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