Ang:Re: Did I miss something?

[Flygare Lennart]

Leif. This sounds interesting. What sequences do you use?

Regards Lennart

(By the way, what is your e-mail address?)

From:   L. Flygare LDS, Odont Dr
        Senior Consultant
        Dept. of Oral Radiology
        Institute for Postgraduate Dental Education
        PO - Box 1030
        S-551 11 Joenkoeping, Sweden

ph: +46-(0)36-324602
fax:+46-(0)36-324612
e-mail: flygare at odont.ltjkpg.se


Leif Kullman:
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>I am working mainly at the School of Dentistry but also one day each week
>at the Academic Hospital in Uppsala. My colleague in Uppsala- Eva Birring
>has made some trials with MRI investigations in implant patients. Both pre-
>and postoperatively. In most these patients a CT-investigation has also been
>performed.
>We have not found any pros for MRI compared with CT, on the contrary CT seems
>better with one exception: When bone have been transplantated to the jaws!
>Then it seems that you can register if the bone becomes vitalized (blood
>supply and so on) very well with MRI and you get a new dimension to follow
>the healing (or rejecting with resorption of the bone) process.
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>Regards   Leif
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