MRI and Dental Braces
There may be at times you need to take MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) by wearing your teeth braces in your mouth.However,sometimes the results will be not exact and the technician most probably suggest you to do the test again by removing the dental braces to get more accurate results.
The braces sometimes will cause some objects to distract the images of the brain taken with the help MRI.But if you want to take images of any other parts of the body,such as your legs there will not pose a problem at all.
To sum-up,the presence of metal components during a brain scan will complicate the scan and skew the results.So it is much better to take MRI without your braces on your teeth to get more accurate results.
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admin on May 13th 2009 in Teeth Braces