Published online Jan 14, 2022. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v10.i2.437
Peer-review started: June 14, 2021
First decision: October 18, 2021
Revised: October 25, 2021
Accepted: December 10, 2021
Article in press: December 10, 2021
Published online: January 14, 2022
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Digital radiography has recently been used in dentistry as a substitute for conventional film radiography worldwide. Digital imaging has many advantages and provides new possibilities for recording and interpreting radiographic data. This system uses different types of digital receptors.
To detect the frequency, type, and reasons behind the appearance of intraoral image artifacts acquired by photostimulable phosphor plates (PSP).
This retrospective descriptive study was conducted in the oral and maxillofacial radiology unit of the dental clinics of the College of Dentistry, Princess Nourah University (PNU). All intraoral digital radiographs were acquired using (Gendex Expert DC., United States) an intraoral X-ray machine with 7 -mA, 65-kVP using a PSP system (Soredex DIGORA Optime imaging plate) and laser scanners (Soredex DIGORA Optime), which can house all sizes of reusable intraoral PSP sensor plates with image acquisition software (MIPACS Dental Enterprise viewer 3.2.2). A total of 50000 intraoral radiographs were retrieved from the clinical database from April 2018 to April 2020 to evaluate the reason, type, and solutions to these image artifacts.
Overall, 50000 intraoral digital radiographs were acquired in a two-year-period; that is, from April 2018 to April 2020. Of these, 3550 (7.1%) retakes were per
Our study discussed intraoral image artifacts that were characteristic of PSP, where the most common artifacts were bitemarks, image size reduction, scratches, and delayed scanning.
Core Tip: Digital radiography has been used widely in dentistry as a substitute to conventional film radiography. Digital radiography holds many advantages and provides a wide range of possibilities to interpret and archive radiographic images. The latter system uses different types of digital receptors, and as any recent technology, different types of image pitfalls are expected. Therefore, these pitfalls render improper diagnosis for the radiographic images. The appearance of intraoral radiographic image artifacts can be produced by using the reusable intraoral photostimulable phosphor sensor plates. Thus, recognizing these errors and defining the causes and their trouble-shooting are crucial factors in making images possess great clinical impacts.