The normal anatomical structural interpretation in the panoramic radiograph is important in clinical dentistry. In this time, it is textbooks published until the present that we use for references, however, widely used anatomical terms are not unification, and there are differences within the textbooks by authors.
Purpose: To help the routine dental care, it is to show that the relations of landmarks of the anatomical structures and its terms in the panoramic radiograph.
Material & Methods: Using 17 representative textbooks (eleven were Japanese, and six were written in foreign language), we examined relations of anatomical landmarks of the normal image of the panoramic radiograph and the described terms.
Results: Cutline in the textbooks and the used anatomical terms were various and were not uniform.
