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Eduardo Murad Villoria1,2, Thaiza Gonçalves Rocha1, Felipe Rodrigues Tosto1
1Department of Pathology and Oral Diagnosis, School of Dentistry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
Objective:
To alert the scientific community about the emergence of new characteristics of bone lesions of the maxillomandibular complex visualized in newer cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) technologies, as well as in current quantitative methods of image analysis.
Methods:
This Letter to the Editor was based on the authors' professional experience, supported by scientific articles that described the characteristics of bone lesions of the maxillomandibular complex visualized in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) imaging methods.
Results:
Bone lesion patterns present in the maxillomandibular complex can vary between 2D and 3D exams, as well as between different protocols and generations of CBCT devices. Additionally, the radiomic analysis in CBCT allows a quantitative characterization of bone lesions, presenting potential to be a non-invasive method for differential diagnosis.
Conclusion:
Oral radiology undergoes constant technological modernization, resulting in improvements in image quality and revealing new behavior patterns of the bone lesions visualized in 3D images, especially in CBCT. Authors responsible for upcoming publications in oral pathology and radiology should be willing to research and describe possible new qualitative and quantitative features of bone lesions affecting the maxillomandibular complex.
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