Technological advance, nuclear dentistry
Today and with the advancement of technology, it is necessary to implement new techniques and/or profits that facilitate the diagnosis and future treatment of the dentist. While it is true, in the field of dentistry, we are familiar with different radiographic techniques such as conventional RX, Cone Beam, computerized tomography, among other modalities that we generally occupy for the diagnosis and treatment of pathologies in head and neck, we leftOn the side and we don’t even think about the help that nuclear medicine could give us.
Nuclear medicine applied to dentistry includes a spectrum that is not yet explored. It is a means to obtain images, which is based on different metabolic factors and other physiological processes of body tissues, which in turn reveal several functional and biochemical aspects of the tissues in a certain way to generate a correct diagnosis.
The images obtained through nuclear medicine imply the use of radioactive isotopes that emit range rays (Y). The rays are emitted and detected by a range (Y) camera, which generates various flat images and detects radioisotopes in the body. (Saxad Ahmad Buch, Nuclear Imaging in The Field of Dentistry: A Review)
The technique applied in the MN provides an early marker of the disease after allowing the measurement of in vivo tissue function. Although MN is not used in the day to day in the field of dentistry, the dental professional must acquire the required information about its various uses.
From the first moment, in which radiopharmaceuticals are injected, radioisotopes can already be detected and can be measured correctly, which allows you to distinguish the inert masses from hard tissues. MN can be used for various studies that involve caries detection, periodontal disease, fluorosis, microfiltration of dental materials, radical resorctions, nutritional effects, among others.
Similarly, MN can be used to study many metabolic and inflammatory processes. Such as head and neck tumors, dysfunctions of the salivary glands and many other diseases that affect the oral and maxillofacial region. Radionuclide images (also called radioisotopes) can accurately predict the ongoing disease process of an organ, long before any morphological change has taken place.
Bone exploration (Bone Scanning) is a nuclear medicine technique, which is possibly one of the most common to perform diagnostic procedures. USA TECNETIO M Metilanfosphonate, which works in high -level osteoblastic metabolic bone areas, very useful to diagnose and differentiate body tissue infections due to infections such as;Dental osteomyelitis or cellulite.(Shazia Mushtaq, Role of Nuclear Medicine In Dentistry)
With respect to the studies of salivary glands, the radioactive substance with affinity for these fabrics in particular is administered and is measured by a scintillation chamber, which allows alterations such as aplasia / glandular agenesis, obstruction, trauma, as well asThe presence of fistulas in the glands can be detected thanks to this diagnostic method.
On the other hand, lymphoscintigraphy is showing as an excellent tool in the diagnosis of oral neoplasms and is an interesting scanning modality. It is already being used in the detection of breast cancer and malignant melanoma, so the detection of malignant neoplasms in dentistry can be facilitated thanks to this modality.
Little by little they are beginning to use nuclear diagnostic techniques in dental practice, and it is of great importance for dentists to be familiar with common use explorations.
In nuclear medicine and with respect to oral lesions, they often overlap with various dental pathologies, so dentists must be aware of the various indications for nuclear image techniques in dentistry.
References
- Shazia Mushtaq, Role of Nuclear Medicine In Dentistry, GJMedph 2012;Vol. 1 ISSUE 6.
- Sajad Ahmad Buch, Subhas G Babu, Renita Lorina Castelino, Shruthi Rao, Ananya Madiyal, Supriya Bhat, Nuclear Imaging in The Field of Dentistry: A Review,
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