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Orthopantomogram
Meaning: Panoramic dental radiograph showing all the teeth, both jaws and surrounding structures on one image.
In practice: An orthopantomogram showed four impacted wisdom teeth in the young adult.
Word parts
- -gram means a recorded image or trace
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