H E L P

[Gibbs, S Julian]

It loks to me like Columbia Univ. has a ready-made and useful
retrospective study just begging to be done.  Of the patients for
whom FMS followed pan+BW, how much additional diagnostic
information was obtained from the FMS?  My guess would be very
little--make that nearly none.
Julian

--On Monday, January 14, 2002 1:30 PM -0500 Neill J Serman
<njs2 at COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:

>                 HELP       H E L P
>
> Our Radiology Clinic is inundated taking FMS, often on patients
> who do not require the FMS.
>
> Patients initially come to the Triage area where a radiographic
> assessment is made.  Often, (and correctly) the prescription for
> the patient is a pan and a set of bitewings.  Unfortunately, many
> other departments in the school will not do a treatment plan for
> the patient unless there is also an FMS.  Thus, the patients get
> sent back to radiology with a prescription for an FMS that is not
> required.  These patients are often teenagers or adults with good
> oral hygiene, few restorations, third molars erupted etc.  The
> existing radiographs demonstrate that no further radiographs are
> required.
>
> I am looking for reference(s) stating that such patients ONLY
> require a pan and bitewings.  It must NOT state or an FMS.
>
>         THANKS
>
> = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
>
> Neill Serman,  Professor and Head,
> Division of Oral Radiology,
> School of Dentistry,  Columbia University
> 630 West 168 Street, New York, N.  Y. 10032
>
> Telephone  212  305-5674     email   njs2 at columbia.edu
> Fax        718  796-0400



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