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Complex Motion Tomography
What is it?

In 2001, a "complex motion tomography" machine was installed in our office.

What is Tomography:
Tomography is an x-ray process that provides the doctor with layered views or "slices" or "cuts" of anatomical structures. These "slices" or "cuts" are superior to most plain film techniques, because they allow the doctor to see underlying structures that are obstructed on conventional x-rays.

Here's an example:
In the TMJ, or the jaw joint, tomography can yield a tremendous amount of even subclinical information about the fossacondylar (ball-socket) relationship because of its capability to narrowly slice through the condyle (the jaw bone). Tomography is also used to obtain slices" through the jaw in cross-section, enabling the doctor to determine positioning for dental implants.

What else can it do?
Our new x-ray machine also takes static or plain films, for instance, of the head or neck, just like in the hospital. However, for all of the x-ray images, the radiation dosage is one thousand times less than in the hospital! And that's not including a comparison to CAT scans, which expose the patient to hundreds of times more radiation.

More services available right in our office.
We do not have to send our patients to the hospital or radiology clinic any longer, except when an MRI is indicated.

Once again we're investing in technology so we can treat our patients with state-of-the-art equipment for the "gold standard" of care.

Hudson Valley Neuromuscular Dentistry
Dr. Joseph Gulak, DDS
419 East Main Street
#302 Wisner Professional Building
Middletown, NY 10940
845-343-6231

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