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More on Dental X-Rays

May 24, 2012

Filed under: Uncategorized — tntadmin @ 8:02 pm

We use digital x-rays in our office along with a thyroid collar to reduce exposure.

But here is a comparison of different types of radiation (note a full series of x-rays is less than atmospheric exposure):

The amount of radiation that we are exposed to from dental X-rays is very small compared to our daily exposure from things like, cosmic radiation and naturally-occurring radioactive elements (for example, those producing radon).

The table below compares our estimated exposure to radiation from dental X-ray with other various sources. As indicated below, a millisievert (mSv) is a unit of measure that allows for some comparison between radiation sources that expose the entire body (such as natural background radiation) and those that only expose a portion of the body (such as X-rays).

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