Cross-eyed on cone beam? Bringing the future into focus

Dr. Rachel Bella was excited. One of the oral surgeons in her town was offering cone beam or 3-D imaging to dentists and their patients. She was thinking about her patient Jane, a 30-year-old accountant who was having low-grade, chronic pain around her maxillary centrals and laterals for several months. Conventional 2-D periapical X-rays and diagnostic tests did not clarify which tooth, if any, would need root canal therapy. Jane's physician thought that the diagnosis was a sinusitis due to an infection or an allergy, but treatment for those symptoms never gave Jane complete relief. It had been frustrating.

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