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| cone beam supplement CBCT in everyday practice One week diary with our X-Mind Trium 3D CBCT in practice Author: Dr Diyari Abdah, UK you care enough to have a machine installed in your clinic for their convenience and yours. Our X-Mind Trium CBCT unit from ACTEON is rather young in our practice, and we have yet to fully utilise it. Every day we fi nd new uses and ways to benefi t our patients by using 3-D imaging where applicable. Following the latest evidence from experts in the utilisation of 3-D imaging can help a lot in deciding where and when to use it, consequently minimising dosage and improving diagnostics and planning. We owe our patients the lowest possible dose with the corresponding acceptable diagnostic value, and sometime a 2-D image is just not enough to give satisfactory diagnostic value. A lot of guesswork is often involved with 2-D imaging that could affect our decision-making and treatment planning. Judging every case individually is important in order for the benefi ts of using a CBCT scan to outweigh the potential risks involved with the use of any type of X-ray unit. A modern CBCT machine should allow for different fi elds of view (FoV) to be utilised, in order to minimise the dose to the patient. There is mounting evidence in the literature in re- There is mounting evidence in the literature in re- gards to the diagnostic superiority of 3-D imaging gards to the diagnostic superiority of 3-D imaging versus 2-D. As a result, many clinicians today are versus 2-D. As a result, many clinicians today are using 3-D imaging either by referring their patients using 3-D imaging either by referring their patients to a CBCT-scanning centre or having mobile units vis- to a CBCT-scanning centre or having mobile units vis- iting them, and the only benefi t of this method is that iting them, and the only benefi t of this method is that there is no initial capital outlay to buy the machine. In there is no initial capital outlay to buy the machine. In contrast, the benefi ts of having your own in-house CBCT machine are many, including the total conve- nience of an on-demand service at any time (pre-op or during and after if needed), learning one software and fully utilising it rather than having to learn differ- ent software for different machines (manufacturers), thus not utilising it to its fully intended use. Additionally, patient appreciation that they do not have to travel to another location and that fact that Despite the choice of four different FOV settings on the X-Mind Trium, and other settings that reduce Fig. 1 Fig. 2 50 CAD/CAM 1 2017