Dental Radiography
Course Number: 10508103
Credits: 2.00
Course Description
10-508-103 DENTAL RADIOGRAPHY APPLICATIONS...prepares dental auxiliary students to operate x-ray units and expose bitewing, periapical, extra oral, and occlusal radiographs. Emphasis is placed on protection against x-ray hazards. Students also process, mount, and evaluate radiographs for diagnostic value. In this course students demonstrate competency on a manikin. In addition, students expose bitewing radiographs on a peer, role-play patient. (Prerequisite: 10-508-101, Dent Health Safety; Corequisite: 10-508-102, Oral Anat & Hist OR 31-508-304, Dental & General Anat)
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- Illustrate how dental imaging technology has progressed since its first use to the ways in which it is used in providing dental health care today
- Explain how the process of exposing dental images works
- Apply principles of radiation safety to patient and operator
- Operate the x-ray equipment
- Select the image receptor for an image
- Process images of diagnostic quality
- Produce images of diagnostic quality
- Manage patients during the imaging process
- Use proper infection control procedures while producing images
- Expose bitewing images
- Expose periapicals using the paralleling technique
- Expose periapicals and occlusals using the bisecting angle technique
- Illustrate how extraoral images integrate with the use of intraoral images in dentistry
- Mount images using anatomical landmarks
- Evaluate images for diagnostic value
- Interpret dental imaging findings