(1) Confirming with a patient their tendency to gag during imaging procedures is a recommended and proactive patient management strategy.  (2) If a patient does gag, keep the receptor in place and calmly but firmly instruct the patient to continue to bite down and try again.

CBCT scans may be interpreted by:

When using the bisecting angle technique to expose mandibular teeth, the vertical angulation of the PID must be set to a _______ angulation and to a _______ angulation for exposing the maxillary teeth. 

The type of caries present under the composite restoration on #30 is termed _______ caries because of its cause and location.  The depth of this decay (its progress into the tooth) classifies it as _______ caries.

When a patient is a minor, informed consent:

The type of caries present on #30 is termed _______ caries.  Before this type of caries can occur, the patient must experience loss of  _______ and recession of the  _______ The pattern of bone loss evident on #30 is described as  _______

Place these steps of exposing a panoramic image in order from first (1) to last (8).

A.  Define radiopaque. B.  Describe the properties of structures or materials that appear radiopaque on dental images. C.  Explain why these structures or materials appear radiopaque on dental images.

Studies have compared the radiation dose of a typical dental CBCT scan to the radiation dose received from:

Explain why the maxillary teeth in this panoramic image appear to be “floating”.