Dental multisection CT for the placement of oral implants: technique and applications.

Dental computed tomography (CT) is a diagnostic examination for the preoperative evaluation of patients who will undergo placement of oral implants. It can be performed with multidetector CT or more recently with cone-beam CT. The growing older population and the consequent development of edentulism have increased the number of imaging studies performed for preoperative evaluation of dental implantation.