You use this window to acquire new digital X-Ray images. You may also use it to import image files, additionally indicating the tooth code or image type before saving it.
Note: a patient record must be open before you can create a new X-ray image.
Depending on whether you use a sensor or an image plate system, you use the functions differently.
You activate the sensor by clicking a tooth code button, then expose the sensor, and then saving the new image.
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You mount the image plate(s) in the image plate scanner, then activate the scanner, then process each new image:
· Indicate the tooth code by clicking a tooth code button
· Click thumbnail to open new image
· Optionally rotate the image
· Click Save to save it
· Repeat with the next image
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Which tooth or bitewing button you click determines how the X-ray image will be labeled and stored in your patient’s record. For example: If you are making a right bitewing image, clicking bwr1 will cause the resulting X-ray to be stored in your patient’s record with the label ‘bwr1,’ If you are making an X-ray of tooth 23, click button 23, and the image will be labeled ’23,’ etc. Correct labeling of your images is important as it allows you to easily retrieve and work with your images in the future, although you can use VisiQuick without labeling the images.
By labeling teeth, you get these features:
· Open last bitewings with one click (Bitewing status button on main toolbar or Alt+Spacebar).
· Automatic placement in X-ray status.
· Automatic placement of Panoramic and Tomo X-rays in Implant status.
· Automatic placement of Cephalographic X-rays in Ortho status.
· Indication of tooth availability in your practice management program, if it supports it.
To correctly label an X-ray image of multiple teeth, you may select multiple tooth buttons by clicking on one tooth button, then dragging the cursor across the other tooth buttons to be selected. Such an image will then be labeled with the selected teeth -- ‘11 12 13 14,’ ‘24 25 26,’ etc.