Value and Limitation of Orthopantomography in the Diagnosis of Mandibular Fractures

Abstract

Orthopantomography has been widely used in dentistry. The present report concerns the value and limitation of orthopantomography for the diagnosis of mandibular fractures. Orthopantomography to be a better radiological approach than the other projections as far as the detection of mandibular fractures. But Orthopantomography is not a technique which replaces the other projections in the radiological examination of the mandible. Each technique supplements each other.