Floor Of Maxillary Sinus Panoramic

Given the limitations of panoramic radiography for assessing topographic relationship of maxillary teeth with sinus floor the purpose of this study was to assess signs on panoramic radiography that could predict root protrusion into the sinus.

Floor of maxillary sinus panoramic. A total of 46 individuals 330 maxillary posterior teeth who underwent panoramic radiography and cbct were enrolled. 1 an inferiorly curving. A characteristic feature of the post caldwell luc maxillary sinus on panoramic radiographs is a right angled triangular shape due to the absence of a floor of the maxillary sinus radiopacity of. Proximity of maxillary posterior teeth roots to the floor of the maxillary sinus is an important anatomical consideration that should be well cogitated 3 4 5 as the closer the roots of the teeth.

Relation of maxillary teeth to the maxillary sinus in normal saudi individuals living in riyadh. Unilocular lesion in the left maxilla subjacent to the canine tooth cropped panoramic occlusal and specimen radiographs. Extraction maxillary sinus panoramic radiograph pneumatization sinus floor topography pneumatization is a physiologic process that occurs in all paranasal sinuses during the growth period causing them to increase in volume 1 2 the maxillary sinus is the largest of the paranasal sinuses and at 10 weeks in utero is the first to. The relation of maxillary posterior teeth roots to the maxillary sinus floor using panoramic and computed tomography imaging in a sample of kurdish people.

Note displacement of maxillary sinus floor arrow. Mattar e hammad l faden a khalil h. Tikrit j dent sci 2012 1 81 8. In dental radiographs of the maxillary posterior teeth portions of the image of the maxillary sinus often appear.

Haller s cells or infraorbital ethmoid cells refer to the ethmoidal pneumatization of the superior aspect of the maxillary sinus and floor of the orbit can be seen on panoramic radiographs. Also the dentist is often consulted with the problem of differential diagnoses of apparent odontalgia and disturbances in the maxillary sinus. Biosci biotech res. The topographic relationship of each root to the maxillary sinus floor was qualitatively classified in the panoramic radiograph and in the computed tomograph under standard conditions of illumination by 1 examiner a s as follows fig.

0 the root is not in contact with the cortical borders of the sinus. A mucous retention phenomenon is rarely fig. The sinus floor is not displaced or eroded.