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A high-frequency ultrasound probe resting against an anatomical model of gum and teeth beside a softly glowing cross-sectional ultrasound image of soft tissue over bone

19 Oct Reading the Gum With Sound: High-Frequency Ultrasound and the Measure of Gingival Phenotype

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The X-ray gave us bone and the scanner gave us the crown, but the gum itself — its thickness, its hidden margin, the bone a fraction of a millimeter beneath it — has stayed stubbornly invisible to imaging. High-frequency ultrasound changes that, measuring soft tissue...

Blue autofluorescence light on oral mucosa, healthy tissue glowing green with one dark suspicious area

27 Sep The Light That Goes Dark: Autofluorescence and the Craft of Imaging Oral Cancer Before It Shows

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A malignancy can hide in mucosa that still looks pink and healthy to the eye. Tissue autofluorescence answers the question a clinical portrait cannot: bathe the mucosa in blue light, and healthy tissue glows back a soft green while trouble goes dark. Here is the...