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A member asked:
My dentist took an x-ray of my teeth and said no infection just inflammation. would an x-ray show all dental abscess and inflammation?
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Dental xrays should show an abscess but I've seen a few patients who had recent dental xrays & had a periapical abscess very shortly thereafter. It's hard to know whether the abscess/inflammation was brewing at the time of the dental xrays a few days earlier.
Answered 1/22/2023
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An x-ray is a 2 dimensional representation of a 3 dimensional object. That means x-rays tell us a lot, but not everything. Additionally an abscess can take time to damage bone, and not immediately appear on x-ray. Question is what is causing the inflammation and what treatment has been prescribed?
Answered 1/22/2023
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