Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology

Clinical Facility and Imaging Services

Clinical Facility

The main imaging facility of the Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology clinic is equipped for all conventional intraoral, panoramic and cephalometric imaging procedures, and includes the usual supporting darkroom, workroom and reading room facilities. This facility is presently being converted to a completely digital clinic: images will be stored in the hospital PACS system, and our reading room has a fully operational diagnostic PACS workstation. CCD and PSP systems will be employed for all intraoral, cephalometric, panoramic and plain skull/hand imaging. A state-of-the-art SimplantPro surgical simulation and treatment planning workstation is found in the OMFR clinic. Additionally, a Hitachi CB Mercuray ConeBeam Volumetric Tomographic unit (CBVT) entered service in September, 2007, as part of a multidisciplinary diagnostic and treatment facility.

MRI studies of the temporomandibular joints, sialography, and CT studies for evaluation of maxillofacial pathology and assessment of genetic and developmental maxillofacial abnormalities are performed in collaboration with the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutics (DDIT). DDIT presently has a 1.5T MRI unit, a 0.5T MRI unit, and open MRI unit, functional MRI capabilities, PET imaging, extensive ultrasonography and nuclear medicine facilities, and three CT scanners, two of which are 16-slice units. The hospital is equipped with a Phillips-Stentor PACS system.

Imaging Services

• Conventional film-based and forthcoming CCD and PSP intraoral imaging.
• Film-based and CCD and PSP digital panoramic imaging.
• Film-based and CCD and PSP digital cephalometric imaging.
• ConeBeam Volumetric Tomographic imaging (CBVT).
• Digital sialography.
• CT imaging for maxillofacial prosthodontic treatment planning, paranasal sinus imaging and assessment of bony and soft tissue oral and paraoral lesions.
• MRI studies of temporomandibular joints, salivary glands, and soft-tissue lesions of the oral and paraoral structures.
• Simplant Pro surgical simulation and treatment planning facility.