Abstract

DOS ANJOS PONTUAL, Maria Luiza; PINHO VELOSO, Heloísa Helena; DOS ANJOS PONTUAL, Andréa  and  DA FONSECA SILVEIRA, Márcia Maria. Intrabucal radiographs errors made at Pernambuco dental school-Brazil. Acta odontol. venez [online]. 2005, vol.43, n.1, pp.19-24. ISSN 0001-6365.

The quality of the radiographic image is essential for the diagnosis and conservation of x-rays in archive. However, there are some Dental specialties that, for force of the execution, require the attainment of x-rays with bigger brevity, being common professionals and students exist to appeal the procedures that cause the damage of its quality with the justification of time profit. Because of this, this work had the intention to emphasize the optimization importance of the radiographic image through the analysis of imperfections in x-rays taken by students. For such, 572 x-rays, proceeding from archives of patients taken care by the students of the ninth period of the 1999 first semester at the Polyclinic of Pernambuco Dental School -UPE, were analyzed simultaneously by two observers and out of these, 75% presented imperfections. Related to the type of imperfection, the execution of the technique had prevalence in the referring errors (58%), followed by the processing errors (19%). Framing of the exposed region (35%) and elongation of the image (35,7%) were the most prevalent errors in the phase of execution of the technique, while yellowish images (33%) and lacerated x-rays (23%) demonstrated to be the occurred imperfections most frequent during processing.

Keywords : quality control; radiography; dental radiography.