A JPEG is a finished print; a RAW file is the negative. In clinical dental photography, where a shade must stay true and a record must stay trustworthy, the difference between the two is not a matter of taste. It is the difference between an...
For years the dental-dedicated MRI was spoken of in the future tense. In March 2026 it stopped being a promise: the MAGNETOM Free.Max Dental Edition cleared the FDA on the strength of a clinical trial. The gallery now has a subject it never could render...
When an AI flags a lesion on a dental radiograph, the newest systems paint a colored heatmap over the finding to show where they looked. That overlay is a picture in its own right, with its own grammar, its own seductions, and its own honest...
A new intraoral scanner weighs 106 grams and runs down a single cable, with no power box on the cart. Beneath the ergonomics lies a quieter story about cost, access, and who in the profession now gets to make a three-dimensional record of the mouth....
A child is not a small adult, and a child's radiograph is not a shrunken version of one. A refined look at the craft of pediatric dental imaging: why the smallest patients demand the most deliberate technique, and how dose, beam, and behavior are each...
Diagnocat and Pearl are two unaffiliated, FDA-cleared AI systems that read dental radiographs, but they were built to look at different kinds of image. A clear-eyed, even-handed comparison of what each one is cleared to do, where each is strong, and how a practice decides...
A second, blurred shape drifts across the opposite side of a panoramic film, higher and larger than it should be. The ghost image is not a flaw in the machine but a signature of how the panoramic is made, and the craft lies in preventing...
The slow erosion of the bone around a tooth is one of radiography's most telling and most slippery signs. A new study argues that reading it well means not only looking harder at the image, but also reading the chart beside it....
A cone-beam scan taken for implants or orthodontics also captures a column of air behind the tongue. Learning to read that dark channel — carefully, and within its limits — is one of the quieter disciplines in modern dental imaging....
A chatbot can describe a photograph in fluent paragraphs. A new study on wrist fractures is a reminder that describing an image and reading one are not the same craft — a distinction dental imaging has quietly understood all along....