A Panorex is a quick way of doing what they used to do with all the tiny little individual tooth radiographs. The advantage is that it shows the entire mouth in one film. The disadvantage is that if you only have a dental problem in one area, it exposes you to more radiation than a single 3 tooth x-ray would. Plus the new digital techologies which do not even use film, are 1/10th the amount of radiation. Also since this is a conventional x-ray/ radiograph is does not show soft tissues issues. It will show bone sarcomas and other hard tissue problems, but for soft tissues and most oral cancers it is useless.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.