Spyros Damaskos

“Uncommon, BUT Significant Hyperdense Incidental Findings on CBCT Imaging”

Spyros Damaskos
Assistant Professor, Oral Diagnosis and Radiology Dept., School of Dentistry, NKUA, Athens, Greece

The presence of hyperdense structures on CBCT scans is common. Often, it is mainly attributed to ossification/calcification of normal anatomical structures such as the thyroid cartilage complex, the sphenoid ligament, the longitudinal ligaments of the spine (extracranially), etc. However, there are also hyperdense imaging findings that indicate pathological conditions, such as calcified atheromatous plaques, calcified lymph nodes, phleboliths, salivary stones, cutaneous calcifications, as well as intracranial calcifications, and calcifications associated with infections, neoplasms and congenital anomalies.
This lecture aims to particularly address the etiopathology and significance of these hyperdense findings due to their - usually unexpected - projection on CBCT images.

Spyros Damaskos, DDS, PhD

Dr. Damaskos currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Oral Diagnosis and Radiology Dept., School of Dentistry, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece.
He completed his postdoctoral training in Dentomaxillofacial Radiology at the Department of Oral Radiology, ACTA, the Netherlands, and worked as research scientist in the aforementioned Dept., having also the assignment of Assistant Professor.
Dr. Damaskos is a founding member of the European Academy of Dentomaxillofacial Radiology (EADMFR), and member of the Research & Scientific Committee of the EADMFR. He has authored more than 35 articles in national and international journals and has created, together with Dr. G.C.H. Sanderink, a CBCT anatomy training website (in English). He has also been a speaker at numerous national and international congresses.