TMJ/Radiographic Interpretation
CE Credits: 6.5 (each)
Teacher: Dr David Hatcher
What you will learn (TMJ Interpretation Course)
This course will focus on the visualization and learning the key diagnostic features associated with healthy TMJs and a spectrum of abnormal joint conditions.
- Imaging Strategies and Protocols for diagnostic investigation of the hard and soft tissues of the TMJs.
- Uses and limitations of Cone beam CT, tomography, Spiral CT, panoramics and MRI.
- Differential diagnoses and decision trees to make a radiographic diagnosis.
- Influence of joint pathology on mandibular growth, facial growth and occlusion.
- Biomechanical relationships between muscle, teeth and TMJs.
- Clinical-radiographic correlations.
- TMJ considerations when restoring the occlusion.
What you will learn (Radiographic Interpretation Course)
Volume Scanning presents the burden of additional anatomy that needs to be evaluated. This course presents a problem solving method for evaluating CT Volumes. This course has been designed as a “hands-on” mini-radiology residency.
- Identifying and naming normal anatomy
- Identify abnormal anatomy
- Developing imaging and case work-up strategies
- Describe relevant features of abnormal anatomy
- Develop differential diagnoses and diagnostic decision trees
