OPG Patient's Positioning

[@dramankaur]

Thank you for the detailed step by step demonstration sir. Your videos are really informative and well explained!

[@saadwahbyalbayatti9561]

Thank you very much. Glad to hear that.

[@ninalokky9450]

Thank you so much for the video! Sometimes I have a problem with positioning patients for OPG, because of excessive kyphotic neck curve, so it shows like a shadow on a front upper or lower teeth, or if our patient don't have upper teeth at all. Would you be so kind to advise something?

[@saadwahbyalbayatti9561]

@ninalokky9450 You are most welcome. You can ask patients with excessive kyphotic neck to hold the hand support in a crisscross fashion, i.e., place left hand on right handle and vice versa. This will aid in making the vertebral column more straight. As for edentulous patients, you can place a cotton role on the area of missing upper or lower incisors to replace the missing crown and thus help the patient to bite on the bite block notch. Hope this will help. Regards

[@sylviastorm1]

Hello sir. Could you help me please? What do you do with patients like me who have a neurological muscular dusorder and so the aparatus cant come around the shoulder, because my shoulders are too high and i cant bring them down. Are we doomed? Are there other bigger opg machines for peoole with deformaties?

[@saadwahbyalbayatti9561]

Hi Mam, thank you very much for your comment, and I am sorry for your condition, all my best wishes of a speedy recovery. To start with, OPG machines are all similar and operate on the same principle. As for your condition, I would advise that when you do an OPG, you inform the X-ray technician that you are going to hold the hand support by placing your left hand on the right support arm, and you right hand on the left support arm, in a crisscross position. This position will bring your shoulders down and thus prevent contact of the machine with you shoulders. If the dentist really needs x-rays, he\she can take intra oral films instead of the OPG. Please let me know if I can be of more help. Regards

[@ghada2879]

Thanks dr great demonstration

[@saadwahbyalbayatti9561]

Most welcome