Radioisotope bone scans have been increasingly employed, as a medical diagnostic aid. during the post decade. At this point in time, many body bone scans are ordered in hospitals having departments of nuclear medicine.
Some authors have reported that, occasionally, positive isotope uptake area are formed in the jaws. However Radioisotope scintigraphy has, thus far, been used very limitedly in the head and jaw regions.
Radioisotope scanning is based upon the ability to record graphically the gamma radiation emitted from tracer elements concentrated in any particular organ or tissue.
It may be more important to understand some of the fundamental principle of radioisotope scanning for the clinical application to maxillofacial region. Therefore, this review chiefly introduces the fundamental principles of radioisotope scanning and the several kinds of radiopharmaceutical.
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