DICOM (Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) is a protocol that allows for the sharing of images and other medical information. DICOM permits PACS, radiology information systems and more medical imaging systems to connect with and pass data to systems at other healthcare facilities.
dilatation and curettage - a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion
Thus, curettage is the conversion of the chronic inflammatory ulcer to the gingival wall of the pocket into a surgical wound. Curettage can be used alone as a separate procedure, after root planing has been performed, or as in combination with root planing to eliminate the pocket.he healing mechanism of the periodontal tissue at the curettage site is as followed. All the epithelial attachment and the ulcerated epithelial lining of the soft tissue wall are curetted out, and all granulation tissue is removed. The gingival tissue is carefully readapted to the tooth.