RAD Self Study Lesson 3

Identify the area the arrows are pointing to on your patient’s dental image.

• Mandibular canal

• Submandibular fossa

• Mylohyoid ridge

• Border of the mandible

Which one of the following is the only member of the dental team who is legally allowed to interpret and diagnose radiographs?

• Dentist or dental hygienist

• Dentist

It is desirable that radiographs be identified with each of the following pieces of information, but it is critical that they be labeled with the

• patient’s name and date of exposure.

• radiographer’s name.

Your radiographs have just exited the processor. When should you mount them?

• Immediately

• At the end of the day

Radiographs are intended to be placed in a film holder in

• the order in which they were exposed.

• anatomic order.

An opaque film mount is preferred because it

• decreases the density of the radiograph.

• masks the light around each radiograph.

In dental radiography, film mounting is the placement of radiographs

• on a viewbox.

• in a supporting structure or holder.

Identify the radiopaque area the arrows are pointing to.

• Zygoma

• Orbit

Identify the radiopaque area the arrows are pointing to.

• Maxillary tuberosity

• Coronoid process

Identify the radiolucent area the arrows are pointing to.

• Mental ridge

• Nutrient canal