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Radionuclides are commonly used for diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes. Their diagnostic use is called radionuclide imaging or scintiscanning or just scintigraphy. Technetium-99m-methylenediphosphate (Tc-99m-MDP) is the most commonly used radiopharmaceutical substance for obtaining information about cellular activity within the bones. For the facial skeleton, the use of bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical uptake in the assessment of facial growth and development was first investigated by G. Cisneros (1982).
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Obwegeser, H.L. (2001). Scintigraphy, a Diagnostic and Treatment Planning Aid. In: Mandibular Growth Anomalies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04534-3_6
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