Dr. Jyoti Mago (Dental Medicine) and alumna Dr. Nicole Ameli (DMD ‘19) presented their poster titled, “Ultrasonography in the diagnosis of benign pathologic entities,” during the recent AAOMR (American Academy of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology) meeting. Their work concluded that ultrasonography has the greatest soft tissue spatial resolution. Its high spatial frequency uses non-ionizing radiation and demonstrates sub-millimeter structural detail that is greater than CT or MRI. Ultrasonography can be a first-line imaging modality in diagnosis and follow-up for superficial soft tissue entities. A clinical examination, along with an ultrasonography examination can be a chairside, time-saving tool in evaluating the benign soft tissue entities that otherwise pose clinicians with a difficult diagnosis.
