Digital intra-oral radiology: An overview of the current digital radiographic technologies and author's personal experience with Schick's CDR system

ABSTRACT

Digital imaging is a revolutionary radiographic technology. The era of digital imaging in dentistry has certainly commenced. The aim of this article is to bring the dentists [up to date] with digital intra-oral radiographic system and discuss its present and future applications. In this article an attempt has been made to enhance the awareness of dentists as regards to the benefits of digital intra-oral radiology. This will give an insight into the application, interpretation, results and the tremendous progress of this latest technology. This article also includes the personal experience of the author with Schick's CDR that the author has been using since 1994. A comparison has also been made between various systems available in the market