Buccal object rule
The buccal object/SLOB rule is a method used to determine the relative position of two objects in the oral cavity using projectional dental radiography. Clark's Rule. In 1909, Clark described a radiographic procedure for localizing impacted teeth to determining their relative antero-posterior position. If the two teeth (or, by extension, any two objects, such as a tooth and a foreign object) are located in front of one another relative to the x-ray beam, they will appear superimposed on one another on a dental radiograph, but it will be impossible to know which one  is in front of the other. To determine which is in front and which is behind, Clark proposed his SLOB rule, as a complicated set of three radiographs, but which can be simplified as follows using just two: SLOB rule in Dentistry Video Tutorial. The video below shows a 5 minute illustration describing SLOB rule in dentistry https://www.youtube.com/embed/AzjvFPlZtZg Buccal Object Rule. In 1952, Richards amended this rule using only 2 radiographs, asserting that the object positioned more buccally will move more relative to the object positioned more palatally or lingually. As a generalization, but not specifically stated as part of  Richards' buccal object rule, the "more buccal" an object is (i.e. the closer it is to the x-ray source) the "more it will move" in the second radiograph when repositioning the x-ray source. At the University of Alabama School of Dentistry, this rule is referred to as the BAMA rule: buccal always moves away.