3D CBCT, OPG & Lateral Cephalometric Imaging
Advanced Digital Dental Imaging
Greenacre Family Dentist runs 3D Cone Beam CT, digital OPG, and lateral cephalometric imaging on-site. Not as a selling point, but because accurate diagnosis requires accurate images, and sending patients elsewhere for scans slows everything down.
The equipment uses low-dose digital radiation. Scans are fast and involve no physical discomfort. Images are available immediately, which means treatment planning can happen during the same visit.
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3D CBCT (Cone Beam CT)
This produces a three-dimensional view of your teeth, jawbones, nerves, airways, and sinuses. It's a different category of information from a standard flat X-ray, the kind you need when spatial accuracy matters. We use it for implant placement, complex extractions, TMJ assessment, and airway evaluation.
Digital OPG (panoramic X-ray)
One scan, full picture. Both jaws, all teeth, surrounding structures. It's the standard starting point for most dental assessments. If you've seen a dentist in the last decade, you've probably had one.
Lateral cephalometric X-ray
A side-profile skull image used in orthodontic planning. It shows jaw growth direction, how teeth sit relative to the facial profile, and what's structurally realistic to move. Without it, orthodontic treatment planning is working with only partial information.
What We Use Imaging For
- Dental implant planning
- Orthodontic treatment and braces
- ClearCorrect treatment planning
- Wisdom tooth assessment
- Impacted teeth diagnosis
- Root canal evaluation
- Jaw joint (TMJ) assessment
- Airway analysis
- Bone and sinus evaluation
- Monitoring facial growth in younger patients
What This Means in Practice
Having imaging in-house removes a step most patients don't realise they're taking. No referral, no separate appointment at a radiology centre, no waiting for results to come back. The scan happens here, the images are reviewed here, and the plan is built here.
The clinical case for 3D imaging is straightforward. Before placing an implant, a 3D scan shows exactly where the nerve runs, how much usable bone exists, and what implant angle is safe. A flat X-ray shows some of that. Not all of it. The difference matters when precision is what makes a procedure go right.
Whether you're looking at orthodontics, implants, wisdom tooth removal, or something still being diagnosed, imaging is where that process properly starts.
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