[ RadSafe ] Dental X-ray doses

[Ted de Castro]

But of course this is achieved by taking the entrance exposure to a 
limited amount of tissue over a small area and averaging that over the 
whole body.  I still don't really buy that as a meaningful quantity/concept.

On 6/6/2011 10:01 AM, Doug Huffman wrote:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental_x-ray  "The dosage of X-ray
> radiation received by a dental patient is typically small (around 0.005
> mSv), equivalent to a few days' worth of background environmental
> radiation exposure, or similar to the dose received during a
> cross-country airplane flight (concentrated into one short burst aimed
> at a small area)."
>
>
> On 6/6/2011 11:40, Otto G. Raabe wrote:
>>> Can anyone please tell me the typical ionizing radiation dose from
>>> dental X-rays with the curremt modern equipment?
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Otto
>>
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