Radiografia panorâmica na avaliação da osteoporose

Abstract

Osteoporosis can not be diagnosed before a fracture because usually no symptoms are seen. Screening patients to go to medical professionals for appropriate investigation is useful for dealing with the increased incidence of osteoporotic fractures. Dentists may be a way of sorting because they often evaluate the jaws with radiographs. Thus, some studies show significant associations between mandibularcortical index determined on panoramic radiographs and bone mineral density of the skeleton in general, such as the spine and femur. Also, a study clinical trial showed that about 95.0% of women who were identified by trained dentists in their clinical results with the morphology of the mandibular cortical had osteopenia or osteoporosis. These studies demonstrate the ability of the dentist can perform the screening to identify individuals with bone mineral density of the skeleton in generalundiagnosed.