Cases Finding on Dental Radiograph in Medical Record Instalation of Dental Hospital, University of Jember

Abstract

ental radiographs is one of the medical examination is very important in the practice of dentistry. In addition to supporting diagnosis, radiographs are also useful in finding cases or disease that clinically undetected. The purpose of this study was to detect cases of clinical dentistry that an undetectable in clinical examination through medical record documents dental radiographs, This study is a descriptive study using cross sectional approach. The study was conducted at Medical Record Installation in Dental Hospital of Jember University during September 2015. The study involved ... .dental radiograph that meet the inclusion criteria: periapical or panoramic radiographs, radiographs visual quality is still good (> 80% did not there were stains), and have the patient data are complete. Interpreting of the radiograph done by researcher. The interpreting data collected, grouped according to the type of case and are presented in the table. Data was analyzed using descriptive analysis: mean, frequency and percentage. The results showed that clinical cases majority are radiolucent lesions in the periodontal, followed by a radiolucent lesions in periapical, , congenital anomalies, radiopaque lesions in the around of roots, radiolucent lesions in pericoronal, radiopaque lesions in pericoronal, degeneration and radiolucent lesions in the surrounding anatomical structures of the jaw (sinus, palatine suture).