1. RADIOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION OF INFECTION & TRAUMA

2. Diagnostic imaging of maxillofacial and fascial space infections
Anatomical extent of the process
Surgically drainable abscesses and fluid collections
Demonstrating and assessing associated complications

5. Plain film examination
Periapical X ray
Panoramic radiograph : odntogentic infection
Anteroposterior and lateral view
: cervical soft tissue (airway)
submandibular, parapharyngeal, retropharyngeal space (airway compromise)

6. Periapical X ray

7. Abscess adjacent to primary tooth

8. Anatomic location

9. Caries and periapical lesion

10. 牙周病
除了牙周病外，尚有 何種疾病?

11. pericoronitis

12. Preoperative clinical aspects
Preoperative clinical aspects. Proptotic left globe, periorbital swelling preventing spontaneous opening of the eye, subconjunctival ecchymosis, and impairment of ocular motility to the right side

13. CT scan in axial view. Maxillary sinus filled with pus
CT scan in axial view. Maxillary sinus filled with pus. Close relationship between upper molar root apexes and maxillary sinus (C). Intraoral view of residual root of tooth #26 affected by extensive carious lesion (D).

14. Sinusitis
Upper molars

15. Sinusitis (water’s view)

16. Prevertebral Space Infection(lateral view)

17. X-ray neck P.A. View : Showing severe acute deviation of trachea to Rt. side

18. Computed tomograph 3-dimensional picture Gray scales :
more negative --- black
more positive --- white
CT readily assess the integrity of cortical bone
Short time required for CT examination
Relative low cost compared to MRI

19. Computed tomograph CT numbers : Hounsfield units(HU) Air : -1000 HU
Fat : -80 to -100 HU
Water : 0 HU
Blood : 60 to 110 HU
Bone : 1000 HU

21. (A)
Sublingual space (long black arrow), submandibular space (long white arrow), mylohyoid muscle (star), hyoglossus muscle (black arrowhead). The root of the tongue is identified by the genioglossus (black circle) and the lingual septum (white arrowhead).
The lateral boundary of the submandibular space is formed by the fascial layers on the medial margin of the platysma muscle (dashed white arrow).

22. (C) Inset: schematic of coronal plane through the oral cavity
(C) Inset: schematic of coronal plane through the oral cavity. The shaded purple area illustrates the horseshoe shaped configuration of the submandibular space and the bilateral continuity of the space ventral to the mylohyoid and anterior belly of the digastric muscles.

23. (B) Coronal CT view at the level of the oral cavity
(B) Coronal CT view at the level of the oral cavity. Sublingual space (long black arrow), submandibular space (long white arrow), mylohyoid muscle (star), genioglossus (black circle), and the lingual septum (white arrowhead), platysma muscle (dashed white arrow), buccinator muscle (curved arrow).

24. Schematic diagram of the relationship of the tooth roots to the sublingual, submandibular, and buccal spaces. Infection extending through the lingual cortex from premolar and molar teeth will involve the sublingual space, whereas infection from molar teeth will involve the submandibular space.

25. Submandibular space abscess or phlegmon
Submandibular space abscess or phlegmon. Axial contrast-enhanced CT (A) shows a large fluid collection within the right submandibular space (arrow), with thickening of the buccinator muscle on the lateral aspect of the mandible and stranding in the subcutaneous tissues representing myositis and cellulits respectively.

26. (B) Axial bone CT shows an endodontically treated (root canal) second molar root with apical periodontitis (C).

27. Ludwigs angina

28. Ludwigs angina
Acute respiratory distress. Axial (A) and coronal (B) contrast-enhanced CTs demonstrate extensive edema and soft tissue thickening of the tongue, sublingual, and submandibular space seen clinically as angioedema, cellulitis, and hematoma. A calcification lies within the genioglossus muscle (arrow), representing either a foreign body or displaced sialolith and is the likely initiating factor.

29. Magnetic resonance imaging
3 D (以往CT只有2 D)
T1 image : good anatomical detail
T2 image : very sensitive in detecting disease processes
T1 : fat, highly proteinaceous tissue
T2 : water content

30. MRI

31. Sialolithiasis
Sialolithiasis. (A) Axial contrast-enhanced CT. Calcified sialolith in Wharton's duct at the junction of the superficial lobe with the deep lobe of the submandibular gland. (B) Axial contrast- enhanced CT from the same patient in A. The black arrow points to a thickened and enhancing wall of the dilated submandibular duct..

32. Sialolithiasis
(C) Contrast-enhanced axial T1- weighted MRI of a different patient demonstrating a calcified sialolith in left Wharton's duct (arrow). (D) Axial T2 weighted MRI of the same patient in C showing the sialolith with surrounding fluid (arrow). The actual size of this stone was approximately 20% smaller than measured on the MRIs. Size inaccuracies for sialoliths generally would only affect sialoendoscopic or interventional retrieval or lithotripsy.

33. Radiographic interpretation trauma

35. Radiographic examination
Presence of root fracture
Degree of extrusion or intrusion
Presence of preexisting periapical disease
Extent of root development
Size of the pulp chamber and root canal
Presence of jaw fractures
Tooth fragments and foreign bodies lodged in soft tissue

40. 有幾處有 Fracture lines

41. Anatomic distribution of mandibular fracture

44. Maxillary fracture
Infraorbital fracture
Lateral wall fracture

45. Waters view

46. Peri-oral soft tissue avulsion and

47. Maxillary fractures, comminuted mandibular ramus/body fractures and bilateral condyle fractures.

48. Le Fort midfacial fractures

49. 3-D CT reconstruction showing a Le Fort type 1 fracture

50. LeFort Fracture II

51. LeFort Fracture III

52. Zygomatic complex fracture

53. Zygomaticomaxillary arch Fracture

54. Submental-vertex view

56. The End