Load a bitewing set, a periapical film, a panoramic X-ray, or a CBCT volume and let the tooth-numbered breakdown below turn shorthand like “PA radiolucency at #19” into a sentence you can actually use before your next dental appointment.
Dental imaging is chosen by the question being asked, not by habit. Bitewings catch interproximal decay between adjacent teeth long before a cavity is visible to the eye, which is why a routine checkup usually starts there. A periapical film narrows in on a single tooth and traces its root from crown to apex, the standard view when a tooth is symptomatic or a root canal needs to be evaluated. A panoramic radiograph steps back to capture both jaws in one sweep, useful for spotting a wisdom tooth's angle, sinus proximity, or a lesion that a narrow film would miss entirely.
Cone-beam CT enters the picture when the question becomes three-dimensional: an implant site needs a bone-height and bone-width measurement before a fixture is placed, an impacted tooth sits close enough to the inferior alveolar nerve canal that its exact path matters, or a tooth that already had endodontic treatment is being reassessed for a missed canal or a persistent periapical lesion that a flat film cannot fully resolve.
Once a panoramic image or CBCT volume is rendered, the AI panel walks the arch tooth by tooth rather than scanning the jaw as one blob. Each crown is checked for radiolucent shadows consistent with caries, each root is followed to its apex looking for a periapical radiolucency, and the surrounding alveolar bone is measured against the cemento-enamel junction to flag horizontal or vertical bone loss. Impacted or unerupted teeth get their angulation and their distance from the inferior alveolar nerve canal or the maxillary sinus floor called out separately, because that distance changes how a surgeon plans extraction.
The plain-language dental report that comes back trades radiographic shorthand for sentences a patient can follow: instead of “PA radiolucency, tooth #30,” it explains that the lower right first molar shows a shadow at the tip of its root consistent with an infection that may need root canal treatment or retreatment, and why that differs from a shadow that is simply the mental foramen or a normal anatomic landmark. The aim is to help you follow the conversation at your next visit, not to replace the clinician reading your actual film.
Dental imaging findings tend to fall into a short list of recognizable clusters. Caries and restorative failure show up as radiolucent shadows under enamel or beneath an existing filling or crown margin, often caught on bitewings before any pain starts. Periapical and endodontic disease centers on the root tip, where a prior deep cavity, crack, or trauma has let bacteria reach the pulp and produce a periapical lesion that a periapical film or CBCT can size and track over time. Periodontal bone loss is measured as the gap between the cemento-enamel junction and the crest of the alveolar bone, and whether that loss is even around the arch or concentrated at one or two teeth changes how it gets treated.
Impacted and ectopic teeth, most often third molars or canines, get judged by their angulation and their proximity to the inferior alveolar nerve canal or an adjacent tooth root. Jaw cysts and other radiolucent or radiopaque lesions are described by their borders, their contents, and whether they are displacing roots or the nerve canal rather than simply sitting near them. Temporomandibular joint findings on CBCT look at condylar shape, joint space symmetry, and any flattening or erosion of the condylar head. Implant-site assessment measures available bone height and width at a proposed fixture location and notes the sinus floor or nerve canal as the limiting boundary.
If a report names a specific tooth by number or mentions a specific structure — the inferior alveolar nerve canal, the maxillary sinus, or the cemento-enamel junction — the condition pages linked above walk through what that finding usually looks like on bitewing, periapical, panoramic, or CBCT imaging. If what you have is a CBCT volume or a DICOM export from dental software rather than a written report, the free viewers linked above let you scroll through the same slices your dentist or oral surgeon reviewed before you send anything for AI explanation. Bringing both the plain-language summary and the original images to your appointment tends to shorten the conversation.
Nothing on this page or in the AI report is a diagnosis, and it does not replace a dentist, endodontist, periodontist, oral surgeon, or dental radiologist reading your actual film. Some presentations need same-day, in-person dental or emergency care rather than a scan review at home: facial swelling that is spreading toward the eye or down the neck, difficulty swallowing or breathing, a fever together with a swollen jaw, or bleeding after an extraction that will not stop with steady pressure. Those signs point toward a spreading infection or a surgical complication, and they warrant urgent evaluation rather than waiting on an AI read of a scan.
Open CBCT volumes, DICOM folders, and dental CT ZIP exports privately in your browser.
Open Free CBCT ViewerThe panel screens dental imaging against 7 conditions, spanning caries and restorative failure, periapical and endodontic disease, periodontal bone loss, impacted or ectopic teeth, jaw cysts, TMJ findings, and implant-site bone assessment. Each tooth and root is walked individually rather than the jaw being scanned as a single region.
No. It can describe a periapical shadow or a root pattern consistent with pulp involvement, but whether a tooth needs endodontic treatment, retreatment, or extraction is a clinical decision made by a dentist or endodontist examining the tooth directly, including tests this tool cannot perform.
Raw DICOM files, ZIP archives, and dental volume exports are parsed and rendered entirely in your browser. Optional AI explanation only sends the rendered views and minimal necessary context after you specifically request it.
No. It is built to help you understand your own dental imaging before or between appointments, not to finalize a reading. Implant planning, surgical extraction decisions, and endodontic treatment plans belong to the licensed clinician who examines you and reviews the full study.
Bitewings and panoramic films are flat, two-dimensional projections, while implant planning needs the true three-dimensional bone height, width, and density at the proposed site, along with its exact distance from the sinus floor or the inferior alveolar nerve canal. Only a CBCT volume captures that reliably.
Facial swelling spreading toward the eye or neck, difficulty swallowing or breathing, a fever with a visibly swollen jaw, or extraction-site bleeding that will not stop with firm, steady pressure all need immediate in-person or emergency care rather than an AI read of a scan.