Today for patients of any age a panoramic radiograph that allows high diagnostic reliability
with minimum radiation exposure must be acknowledged as the standard of care. The new more
medically and legally responsible strategy for examination of patients is closely intertwined
with a basic principle of patient care. Panoramic radiograph is rapidly becoming a meaningful
and normal component of dental practice-oriented prevention. This Atlas presents the proper use
ofoptimum radiographic exposure and contemporary techniques for today's dental office. Emphasis
is placed on the reliable recognition of normal structures in the projected space and clear
differentiation of normal features from pathological radiographic signs. These major topics of
fundamental importance for correct interpretation are treated more extensively. The section on
diagnosis deals in depth with the typical radiographic manifestations of frequently occurring
pathological processes. Inherent in that section of the book is the basic understanding that
the radiopathologic manifestation of one and the same lesion may vary considerably depending on
the patient's age and sex on the phase of development of the lesion at the time of
documentation on the localization within different surrounding structures and according to
actual histologic features of the lesion.
