Do you know how to keep your healthy smile?Let's pay attention to your oral health and make you have a more confident smile!

The origin of the World Oral Health Day

In 2007, the Annual General Assembly of the World Dental Federation (FDI) decided to set March 20 as "World Oral Health Day (WOHD)". Since 2008, oral health organizations and communities around the world have gradually carried out "World Oral Health Day" activities to remind people of the important role of healthy teeth, periodontal tissue and sound oral function in our daily work and life.

Until the year 2022, it’s already 16th World Oral Health Day, and the theme of the 2022 World Oral Health Day is "Be proud of your mouth.”

In modern society, healthy teeth can not only convey a confident, elegant image in social situations, but also a class symbol, reflecting everyone's consumption power and lifestyle. According to the survey, the average American spends between $1,000 and $1,500 a year on dental care, while Chinese people spend less than 10% of their total annual spending on oral health protection, which is lower than the global average.

With the gradual improvement of China's economic level and residents' oral health literacy level, Chinese people's pursuit of life is also more refined. In recent years, Chinese people pay more and more attention to oral health.

Here is the photo that has been called the most powerful Oscar cast ever. As we can see, all of them have great teeth.

So how can we protect oral health and our teeth? In general, clinicians will recommend that you have an oral CBCT to check your oral health.

Why should CBCT be used when treating teeth?

1. Through CBCT scans, many dangers can be found that doctors cannot see with the naked eye.?

2. The hard tissue of the teeth can be clearly seen when the teeth are irradiated vertically by X-ray.

3.??In addition, for the oral cavity with many problems, CBCT photography can clearly reflect the whole mouth teeth. Also, comprehensive analysis based on X-ray scan results can also improve the accuracy and success rate of dental diagnosis and treatment.?

4. CBCT scan results can also help doctors and patients have good communication to provide a basis for the development of appropriate treatment plans for patients.

That said, if oral health is treated without CBCT, there is always a significant risk.

What is CBCT?

CBCT is short for Cone Beam CT, which is a cone-beam projection computerized tomography device. It uses X-rays to make projection exposures at a low dose of radiation in a circular pattern around the projected body. The data obtained after multiple exposures around the projected body is then "reconstructed" by computer in a 3D image. The use of cone-beam X-ray scanning in CBCT significantly improves the utilization of X-rays, and another advantage of CBCT is its high isotropic spatial resolution.

In addition, CT radiation is higher, but dental CT radiation is in the range of about 100 microsieverts, equivalent to a round-trip flight between Beijing and New York.?

What are the advantages of CBCT？

In the field of oral imaging, the imaging quality of CBCT is better than CT and general radiography. The imaging effect of oral CBCT is better, which is helpful for doctors' diagnosis and is of great help to dental implant and comprehensive diagnosis. The advantages of oral CBCT are as follows:

1. Wide application: can be used in dental implant, oral and maxillofacial surgery, orthodontics, dental pulp, periodontal, etc.

2. CBCT has a high definition.

3. Low radiation dose.

4. The view can be adjusted as needed.

About ANKE’s CBCT

As an outstanding pioneer in the field of medical devices in China, ANKE has a very rich background in the research and development of CBCT. ANKE launched a high-end Dental CT in 2015, and is still innovating and developing in Dental CT.

DENTOM can be applied in the applications of dental implants, orthodontics, periodontal disease, temporomandibular joint disease, jaw cyst, tumor and airway assessment, inner ear simulation endoscope and other fields in a short period of time.?

Also, the following are the features of ANKE’s CBCT:

1.Large?field?of?view,?ultra-high-resolution?3D?imaging

DENTOM CBCT equipped with large flat panel detector with FOV of 16cm x 13cm can obtain 600 images/360 degrees. It not only improves the resolution of 2D/3D images, but also further expands its clinical application range.

2.?Low dose scanning?

The industry's unique FOV stepless adjustable technology, according to the needs of the clinical scanning area, the head positioning stroke is fine-tuned in the three-dimensional direction of up, down, left and right, and front and rear; different target areas flexibly select different scanning fields to meet various application requirements. It can also effectively reduce the radiation dose of patients.

FOV?adjustment range:?4?cm?x?4?cm?to?16?cm?x?16?cm

3.?Proprietary image correction technology

For?the?needs?of?dental?imaging?diagnosis?and?patient?characteristics,?DENTOM?CBCT?is?equipped?with?a?variety?ofimage?correction?algorithms,?which?can?greatly?improve?image resolution?and?reduce?the?impact?of?metal?artifactsand?bone?artifacts?on?diagnosis?under?the?premise?of?low radiation?dose.

——?MetalCARE?metal?artifact?correction?technology,?greatly?reducing?the?image?quality?of?the metal?in?themouth,?significantly?improving?the?image?resolution

——?BoneCARE?of?boneless?artifact?correction?technique,?to?show a?very?fine?anatomy

——?NoiseCARE?noise?reduction?correction?technology?effectively?reduces?system?noise?and?improves?imagesignal-to-noise ratio

4.?Powerful application software?

DENTOM?is?equipped?with a?powerful?dental?professional?software.It?adopts?the?workflow?design?consistent with?ANKE's?ANATOM?multi-slice?spiral?CT,?modular?management,?in?line?with?the?imaging?doctor's?operating?habits, with?more?simple,?intuitive,?easy?to?operate,?strong?interaction?and?so?on.?The?system?has?a?flexible?layout?features, more?in?line?with?the?needs?of?the?dental?film?printing?images,?while?with?post-processing?apparatus?more?in?line with?requirements?of?the?dental?treatment:?MPR,?CPR,?VR,?SSD,?MIP?modules and rich?clinical?application.

Dental implant

Airway?analysis

Temporomandibular?joint?examination

Dental?and?Maxillofacial?Surgery

In addition, during CBCT shooting, radiology staff will strictly abide by the principle of radiological protection optimization and will also provide patients with all kinds of standardized protective equipment to protect patients to the greatest extent.

To reduce the fear and afraid of CBCT, also through a correct and comprehensive examination of our mouth. Let’s protect our oral health, also maintain a healthy smile!

If you are interested in learning more about oral health, please look forward to future content.

References

1. Ni Z, The National Health and Family Planning Commission have released the results of a survey on China's oral health. https://www.cn-healthcare.com/article/20170919/content-495783.html. Retrieved March 19, 2022.????

2. Venkatesh, Elluru; Elluru, Snehal Venkatesh (2017-12-02). "Cone beam computed tomography: basics and applications in dentistry". Journal of Istanbul University Faculty of Dentistry. 51 (3 Suppl 1): S102–S121.?

3. American Dental Association, Health Policy Institute. Dentists’?Practice Ownership is Decreasing. 2018. https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=488834&article_id =3059645&view=articleBrowser&ver=html5. Retrieved March 18, 2022.

4.??Xuedong Z, Xin X. Oral Health in China: from Vision to Action. International Journal of Oral Science. 10,1 (2018).