Advanced Imaging: Valuable Guide in Implant Dentistry

Nowadays, dental implants are gaining immense popularity and wide acceptance because they not only replace lost teeth but also provide permanent restorations that do not interfere with oral function or speech or compromise the self-esteem of a patient. Appropriate treatment planning for replacement of lost teeth is required and imaging plays a pivotal role to ensure a satisfactory outcome. The development of pre-surgical imaging techniques and surgical templates helps the dentist place the implants with relative ease.In nutshell, it can be stated that the vision of the third eye gifted to us by Roentgen enlightens the pitfalls and the abyss of complications, which a clinician can entangle himself in this blind procedure of implant dentistry if he has not taken the help of newer generations of advanced imaging modalities in Radiology.