AUTHOR=Bishop Ian Tyler 

TITLE=Diagnostic value of full-mouth radiography in horses

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Veterinary Science

VOLUME=Volume 9 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/veterinary-science/articles/10.3389/fvets.2022.971886

DOI=10.3389/fvets.2022.971886

ISSN=2297-1769

ABSTRACT=Oral exams and full-mouth dental radiographs were performed on 248 horses presented for routine oral health care. The findings were assessed to determine how often disease was diagnosed by radiographs without related findings on oral exam. In 21.0% of cases, there were important radiographic findings that would not have been predicted based upon the oral exam. 45.6% of cases had oral exam findings that would have prompted dental radiographs, according to the criteria of the study, and of those 21.2% had radiographic signs of disease that would have been missed if only targeted radiographs had been taken, rather than a full-mouth survey.