Using Positioners for Indirect Digital Radiography

The PSP plate handles clinically exactly the way conventional film handles; the Rinn kit is the same; the placement of the holder in the mouth clinically is the same; etc. The differences are in how the PSP plates are processed after exposure, cleared and then packaged for re-use. For offices contemplating a switch to digital from film, the transition to a PSP intraoral system will be the system that is the most like film, as far as the clinical techniques are concerned; therefore, we are choosing to demonstrate the PSP system with the Rinn positioner kit instead of film. Again, the clinical use of traditional film and the indirect digital technique of PSP are identical; of course the PSP system should use less radiation exposure, but that does not affect the use of the kit itself.