My dentist wants me to have a panoramic x-ray.. What, where, why and how much?
Article by David Mandich, Health Care Travel Writer
Dental patients considering dental implants or dental travel for major dentistry are often unaware of the importance of having a strange new (since 1985) x-ray casually referred to by dentists as a pano. They toss the word around like it was a special kind of Italian bread or some kind of pantyhose everyone knows about but me.
Panoramic radiographs (aka or tomographic x-ray) show an ear to ear 180 degree view of the patient’s jaws and all the teeth as well as much of the head and neck anatomy.
The machine used is different than the standard x-ray unit as the patient generally stands while the x-ray unit travels on a semi-circular track around the patient’s head.
