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See your own X‑ray, and decide after.

Name: Consultation & X-ray in Karachi, PKR 3,500 | Dr Arshad
Creator: Prof. Dr. Arshad Hasan

Examination, X-ray and diagnosis on the screen in front of you. The case is discussed, and you accept it or you don’t.

On the day

Examination, X-ray and diagnosis

PKR 3,500

The whole cost of finding out what is wrong, and the only money you spend before you have seen the problem yourself.

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What the visit is

Every case here starts the same way: an examination, an X-ray, and a diagnosis you can see.

The case is discussed, and you accept it or you don’t. Nothing is booked in that appointment that you have not agreed to. The consultation is PKR 3,500, that is the whole cost of finding out what is wrong, and it is the only money you spend before you have seen the problem yourself.

PKR 3,500

Examination, X-ray and diagnosis. Quoted in writing before any treatment begins.

On the screen

The film goes up where you can see it, and the case is talked through in front of you.

22-24×

Where a case needs it, the same operating microscope used during treatment is used to look.

The protocol

Five steps, in this order.

01
Examined
You are examined, and the tooth or teeth you came about are looked at directly.
02
An X-ray is taken
It appears on the screen beside the chair within seconds.
03
The film is read with you
What it shows, and what it does not show.
04
The options are laid out
With the cost of each explained to you.
05
You decide
If you want treatment the same day, tell the receptionist when you book so the time is held.

Prof. Dr. Arshad Hasan at the DHA Phase 8 clinic

Book your consult

Monday-Thursday & Saturday · 4:00-8:00 PM

Tooth 34 · Vertucci type V

A flat film is a shadow, not a photograph.

An X-ray is a two-dimensional shadow of a three-dimensional tooth, so roots overlap and canals hide behind one another.

Four radiographs of one lower premolar, taken from different angles — Films from one case, in the order they were taken.

That is why the same tooth is often filmed from more than one angle, and why a scan is sometimes worth taking before anything is started rather than after something has gone wrong.

Which one you need

A film, or a scan.

A flat filmA CBCT scan

What it isA two-dimensional shadow of a three-dimensional tooth.In his words, “like a mini CT scan of the mouth”.

What it hidesRoots overlap and canals hide behind one another, so the same tooth is often filmed from more than one angle.Answers the question a flat film cannot, because nothing is stacked behind anything else.

When it is usedUsually on the first appointment, and later during the treatment whenever it is needed.Where a flat film cannot answer the question, for example diagnosing a failed root canal when the cause is not obvious.

Also used forMonitoring the healing of an infection, and checking the healing around an implant.Implant planning: a 3D scan of the jaw assesses the quantity and quality of bone before anything is placed.

When it is decidedTaken during the appointment.Discussed usually, though not always, at the first appointment and prescribed accordingly, before anything goes wrong.

PricePKR 3,500with the examination and diagnosisCharged by an external laboratory.

Why a scan is a different question

A film looks one way through. A scan looks three.

Sagittal, coronal and axial. The same three words label the scan window, in the same three colours.

A skull with the three anatomical section planes drawn through it: the sagittal plane in red dividing left from right, the coronal plane in green dividing front from back, and the axial plane in blue dividing top from bottom — The three planes. Red divides left from right, green divides front from back, blue divides top from bottom.

A cone beam CT reading window showing the same tooth in four panels: the coronal view, the sagittal view, the axial view, and a three-dimensional reconstruction of the jaws — One tooth, read in all three planes at once, with the jaws reconstructed in the fourth panel. The scan itself is taken at an outside laboratory.

What is used to look

The same microscope that does the treatment.

Four things decide what can be seen at the first appointment, and the first of them is the instrument the treatment itself is done through.

22-24×

The operating microscope. Where a case needs it, the same scope used during treatment is used to look at the consultation.

Digital sensor

The film appears on the screen beside the chair within seconds, which is why it can be read with you rather than sent to you.

CBCT

A 3D scan, discussed where a flat film cannot answer the question, and used in implant planning.

In writing

Every option is written down with its price before anything begins.

On the day

From the door to the decision.

Monday-Thursday & Saturday · 4:00-8:00 PM. Ample free parking, with a designated free lot nearby.

On arrival
You are examined
The tooth you came about is looked at directly.
Then
The film is taken
It is on the screen beside the chair within seconds.
Then
The film is read with you
What it shows and what it does not show.
Then
The options are laid out
Discussed with you before anything is agreed.
Before you leave
You decide
Nothing is booked that you have not agreed to. Same-day treatment only if the time was held.