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So have you recently been to your dentist and they took bite-wing X-rays and you just
don't know what that means. Well my name is Michelle, and I'm a dental assistant with
Solutions, and I'm here to explain to you, and show you what bite-wing X-rays are. Bite-wing
X-rays, if you would take a look over here, they're a series, they usually come in a set
of two or in a set of four, and they're great films to take in order to determine if you
have any cavities in between your teeth. The doctor is able to determine if you have any
cavities on the surface of your teeth by his instrument, but there's really no exact way
to determine if you have cavities in between your teeth, unless you have bite-wing X-rays
taken. So therefore, he would take the X-rays, he would basically kind of look in between
the teeth, where you see the little gap here, and then if there's any darkness around the
side of the tooth, usually that's an indication that you have a cavity. But for children we
take only two bite-wing X-rays, because their mouth is much smaller than adults, and then
for adults we take a series of four bite-wing X-rays, so therefore you're able to catch
the back molars and then the front bicuspids, as you could see in this picture. So if you
ever go to your general dentist, and he tells you that you need bite-wing X-rays, now you
know what they are, now you know what they look like. And once again, my name is Michelle,
I'm a dental assistant with Solutions, and I just explained to you and showed you what
bite-wing X-rays are.