Abstract
A 7-year-old boy with delayed eruption of the right maxillary central and lateral incisors was examined using dental cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). The axis of the lesion in crosssectional images was then perpendicularly adjusted using simulation software for dental implant treatment, and two-dimensional images were reconstructed at intervals of 30 degrees. The lesion appeared as a tooth-like body with a radiolucent space in the images. Positional relationships of the lesion to neighboring teeth and surrounding anatomical structures, such as the incisive canal, could be clearly observed in the images.These results suggests that images reconstructed using simulation software designed for dental implant treatment can supply useful information for diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as childhood odontoma in various dental clinics, in addition to dental implant treatment.
