An x-ray is a great tool for diagnosing bone pain. Other methods which can be used to investigate bone pain are CT Scans and MRIs which can render a 3D image of the area where the bone pain is occurring.
my daughter's (14 years) longer bone of the forearm is curved in the x-ray and she is in pain.
The dentist will take a panoramic x-ray which shows your wisdom teeth, abscess, nerves and your jaw bone. They choose not to take a periapical x-ray because it is difficult to get the tooth in this x-ray due to its location.
Only an x-ray can tell for sure if a bone is broken.
A compound fracture? is the bone in of out of the skin? has he fallen recently? It sounds like a closed fracture you should probably get him an x-ray
Plain x-rays are x-rays that do not demonstrate the planes of bone-on-bone as well as other x-rays such as MRI's.
An x-ray
x ray helps find a fracture in any part of human bone.
An X-ray can tell if you broke your collar bone.
In X-ray or CT scan as crack in the surface of bone.
An x-ray is usually used to confirm whether a bone is fractured or not.
an x-ray
A medical practitioner may order a computer assisted tomography (CAT) scan or x ray to rule out other causes of back pain and to help locate any bone spurs that exist.