A Study on Imaging Technique in Canine and Feline Dental Radiography

Abstract

As a screening test to check full dentition in dogs and cats, this study was conducted to devise a method to take intraoral radiographs easily, quickly, and stably regardless of the operators being skilled or not. Occlusal film positions, incident angles, and incident beam directions during photographing were tested variously, and we made up a new reference guide which contained diagrammatic illustrations of the standard incident angles and beam directions, and typical X-ray images. By using this reference guide, efficiency of the photographing procedure was increased.