As a dental specialty practice, it our responsibility to provide you and your pet with the highest standard of care when it comes to dentistry. Studies show that up to 2/3 of dental problems cannot be detected without imaging. For us to provide you with the most accurate diagnosis and treatment plan for your pet’s dental health, imaging is performed during all of our procedures. Imaging includes dental x-rays and 3D imaging with Cone-beam CT. Each of these gives important information regarding the teeth and bones. In some patients that have had recent diagnostic quality dental radiographs, we do not need to repeat the dental radiographs. Some pets that have had dental x-rays have not had adequate number or positioning of x-rays previously taken to be appropriately diagnostic, or the x-rays are not recent enough to be acceptable. For these patients, the x-rays will need to be repeated.