Inside the Read: How an OMR Reads a CBCT

About this session

Every CBCT holds more than the reason it was taken. In this session, Dr. Dania Tamimi opens a real scan and walks through it exactly the way a radiologist does: air-filled spaces first, then bone, then soft tissue interfaces, with the chief complaint saved for last.

Along the way, she covers why that order matters. You'll see how a well-documented bias called satisfaction of search error pulls every clinician's eye toward what they already like to look at, and how a systematic approach counters it. And you'll follow one patient's scan from an aesthetic orthodontic consult through a series of findings that reshape the entire treatment conversation.

What you'll learn

  • The systematic read: black things, white things, gray things, and why the radiologist often looks at the chief complaint last
  • Satisfaction of search error, and how radiologists guard against it
  • One complete patient story, from "fix my smile" to jaws, airway, and posture
  • How anatomy knowledge drives what you can and can't identify on a scan

Your Presenter

Dania Tamimi
Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist, BDS, DMSc
BeamReaders
Dr. Dania Tamimi graduated with a dental degree from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She trained at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and earned a doctorate of medical science (DMSc) and certificate of fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology in 2005. She is board certified by the American Certifying Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (ACBOMR) and is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.
She is a reviewer and an Editorial Board member for Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine and Oral Radiology (OOOO), as well as a reviewer for DMFR, Oral Radiology, Head and Neck, Angle Orthodontist and AJO-DO. She is the lead author on two textbooks: “Specialty Imaging: Dental Implants” (which has been translated to Portuguese and Russian) and “Specialty Imaging: Temporomandibular Joint and Sleep-Disordered Breathing” (translated to Chinese and Spanish) and a co-lead author on “Diagnostic Imaging, Oral and Maxillofacial” (translated to Spanish). She lectures nationally and internationally.
  • Dania Tamimi
    Oral and Maxillofacial Radiologist, BDS, DMSc
    BeamReaders
    Dr. Dania Tamimi graduated with a dental degree from King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She trained at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and earned a doctorate of medical science (DMSc) and certificate of fellowship in Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology in 2005. She is board certified by the American Certifying Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology (ACBOMR) and is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists and the Pierre Fauchard Academy.
    She is a reviewer and an Editorial Board member for Oral Surgery, Oral Pathology, Oral Medicine and Oral Radiology (OOOO), as well as a reviewer for DMFR, Oral Radiology, Head and Neck, Angle Orthodontist and AJO-DO. She is the lead author on two textbooks: “Specialty Imaging: Dental Implants” (which has been translated to Portuguese and Russian) and “Specialty Imaging: Temporomandibular Joint and Sleep-Disordered Breathing” (translated to Chinese and Spanish) and a co-lead author on “Diagnostic Imaging, Oral and Maxillofacial” (translated to Spanish). She lectures nationally and internationally.
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