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WorksheetsRAD Self Study Lesson 3
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
What are the arrows pointing to?
Periodontal abscess
Lateral fossa
Identify this landmark.
External oblique ridge
Mylohyoid ridge
Identify the landmark the arrows are pointing to on your patient’s dental image.
Median palatal suture
Incisive foramen
What is the arrow pointing to on your patient’s dental image?
Trabecular bone
Mental foramen
Identify this landmark.
Zygoma
Maxillary sinus
Identify this landmark on your patient’s dental image.
Maxillary tuberosity
Lateral pterygoid plate
Identify this landmark.
Anterior nasal spine
Nasal septum
Identify this landmark.
Mental ridge
Mental fossa
Radiopaque structures appear light or white in a radiographic image.
True
False
Structures that are cavities, depressions or openings in bone such as a sinus, fossa, canal or foramen will allow x-rays to penetrate through them and expose the receptor. These areas will appear radiolucent or black on radiographic images.
True
False
