What is the purpose of a Waters projection?

What will be an ideal response?


Images the maxillary, frontal, and ethmoid sinuses. The chin is tipped up in this projection to avoid superimposing the bony petrous ridges and base of the skull structures on the maxillary sinuses. In this way, the lower one-third of the maxillary sinus can be viewed free of superimposition from the skull base structures.

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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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How you ________ a patient under the influence can be as important as what you are doing for them

A) immobilize B) speak to C) start an IV on D) diagnose

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A 22-year-old woman complains of mildly painful ulcers in her hard palate. The ulcers are multiple and confluent. A similar condition has been noted in the patient on two previous occa-sions. This is most likely:

a. Trauma b. Herpangina c. Candidiasis d. Riga-Fede disease e. Secondary herpes

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A bullous eruption of attached gingiva mediated by autoantibodies to laminin 5 and BP antigens in basement membrane is known as:

a. Pemphigus vulgaris b. Lupus erythematosus c. Erythema multiforme d. Behçet's syndrome e. Mucous membrane pemphigoid

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