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And you might take a picture
of a root canal tooth and it looks fine, but if you do
another kind of X-ray, it's called cone beam,
it's almost like a CAT scan, where you can get
a three-dimensional view
of that tooth, we very commonly find
that these root canal teeth are abscessed,
and there's an abscess sitting around the tooth that isn't
visible on the 2-D X-ray
of a root canal tooth and it looks fine, but if you do
another kind of X-ray, it's called cone beam,
it's almost like a CAT scan, where you can get
a three-dimensional view
of that tooth, we very commonly find
that these root canal teeth are abscessed,
and there's an abscess sitting around the tooth that isn't
visible on the 2-D X-ray
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And you might take a picture
of a root canal tooth
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and it looks fine,
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but if you do
another kind of X-ray,
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it's called cone beam,
it's almost like a CAT scan,
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where you can get
a three-dimensional view
of that tooth,
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we very commonly find
that these root canal teeth
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are abscessed,
and there's an abscess sitting
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around the tooth that isn't
visible on the 2-D X-ray.
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Movie Summary
Featuring opinions from doctors and dentists from around the world on the health effects of the root canal procedure.