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Fig. 1. —Dental panoramic radiograph of 60-year-old woman with normal cortex. We drew line parallel to long axis of mandible and tangential to inferior border of mandible and constructed dotted line perpendicular to this tangent intersecting inferior border of mental foramen, along which mandibular cortical width was measured. Distance between two parallel solid lines is cortical width. Arrow shows mental foramen.