Importance of diagnostic images of the oral and maxillofacial regions for the elderly or medically compromised patients

Abstract

It has been revealed that the oral management, for example oral care and dental treatment, is one option for preventing postoperative complications such as pneumonia and has been increased that the number of referral patients with systemic diseases from the medical doctors before medical treatment. Therefore, the dentists need to be correctly diagnosed imaging about the presence or absence of a dental disease which is problematic for patient’s systemic treatment. Depending on the systemic diseases, the diseases itself or medications may evoke the oral symptoms. The oral surgeons need sufficient knowledge about the image findings of these systemic diseases.