Surgery is necessary for teeth which are embedded in the gums under, or between, existing teeth, so that there is no space for the new tooth to surface other teeth develop below the gum surface and for various reasons do not break through it. Your dentist may decide before extracting a tooth, to x-ray the area for signs of unexpected complications. Follow-up x-rays may be necessary to assess whether the healing process is satisfactory. The treatment of root canals can only be carried out because modern x-ray techniques reveal the root length, the shape of the root canal, and that the canal has been completely filled after treatment. In the past your dentist would have diagnosed root problems by a process of elimination of other causes of distress. It’s pretty obvious that problems associated with the roots of teeth cannot be examined with the naked eye. Especially if it has caused bone loss around the teeth Without an x-ray it is very difficult to assess the extent of gum disease. The extent of decay shown on the x-ray will allow your dentist to decide whether the tooth needs filling or only preventive treatment. Without x-ray your dentist cannot locate the cause of your distress.ĭecay between teeth, or under old or leaking fillings presents special difficulties. Not all these sources of pain are visible to the naked eye. An x-ray will show where the trouble lies, how extensive it is and therefore what should be done about it. The problem is, that “there” could prove to be any one of the teeth in the general area or maybe all or none of them. Pointing to the tooth you think is the culprit has not been very useful or successful, in dental diagnosis and is very frustrating for the patient. Once a developing problem is identified it can be treated appropriately before it becomes, serious, painful, and costly to repair.ĭental x-rays are essential in the diagnosis and treatment of many causes, for example: Today your dentist can use “x-ray” vision to diagnose many difficulties in their early stages, sometimes even before symptoms, like tooth ache, signal that something is wrong. By the time the cause was obvious or visible, the problem was much worse. In the days before dental x-rays were possible, the dentist had to make an educated guess about the cause of some dental problems. A dentist working without the advantages of an x-ray is like a pilot flying his plane in thick cloud or fog without instruments or radar.
The cause and the extent of many dental problems are not immediately obvious to the naked eye.
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