Who uses it
Dentists who receive CBCT referrals from imaging centers and want to review the scan before the patient arrives. Endodontists working up a case from a CBCT emailed by a colleague. Orthodontists reviewing progress scans on an iPad during consults. Imaging centers sending referring dentists a link instead of a CD.
Medical professionals who need to open a CT or MRI DICOM for second opinion and do not want to install Horos, OsiriX or Weasis on a locked-down clinic computer.
What you can do in the viewer
Scroll axial, coronal and sagittal planes. Adjust window and level for bone or soft-tissue presets. Rotate a 3D volume. Place linear measurements in true millimetres. Build panoramic reformats and follow curved canals with MPR.
Capture screenshots, generate a PDF report, or export a single DICOM slice with measurements baked in. Share the full study by link — the recipient opens it in their own browser.
What DICOM looks like when it arrives
A DICOM export is typically a folder with a few hundred .dcm files, one per slice. Some scanners wrap it in a ZIP archive or add a DICOMDIR index. Others produce proprietary containers like Planmeca .pln or NewTom .proj.
CBCTHub reads all of these without asking you to preprocess. If the scanner output is unusual, drag it in and the viewer tells you what it found.