H E L P

[Eisa Mozaffari]

I believe using pan + BW + (selected PAs from the areas that are not
clearly visualized on pan), provide more information with less exposure
compared with FMS alone. I wish I was allowed to use this prescription.

At 02:19 PM 1/14/2002 -0600, you wrote:
>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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Dr. Eisa Mozaffari, D.M.D., Dipl. ABOMR
Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology,
Department of Oral Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania
School of Dental Medicine,
4001 Spruce st.,
Philadelphia, Pa 19104
Tel: (215) 898-8972
Email: eisa at pobox.upenn.edu