[Experience of using a filmless system in dental practice at Hiroshima University Hospital, a former university dental hospital].

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Abstract

Our university hospital has had a policy of electronic patient recordkeeping, replacing paper-based recordkeeping, since September 1, 2008. Because the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology had already been using computed radiography for X-ray systems except for intraoral radiography and storing data in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format, the following three conditions form the basis of the changes we made in relation to the introduction of this policy. We started 1. using imaging plates for intraoral radiography as well and storing the data in DICOM format; 2. diagnosed without the need for film; and 3. referred to past images displayed on the screen of our Radiology Information System (RIS). The introduction of digital intraoral radiography has many advantages: not only does it not require film and can all past images be referred to on the screen of the RIS, but radiation exposure times are also shorter, images can be saved electronically, and thus, film processing is redundant. The system improves efficiency and is also advantageous to patients and staff in other departments.

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Ohtsuka, M., Nakamoto, T., Konishi, M., Yamane, Y., Tamura, M., Takaba, J., … Tanimoto, K. (2011). [Experience of using a filmless system in dental practice at Hiroshima University Hospital, a former university dental hospital]. Nihon Hoshasen Gijutsu Gakkai Zasshi, 67(6), 673–678. https://doi.org/10.6009/jjrt.67.673

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