[ RadSafe ] Dental X-ray doses

[Lemieux, Bryan P]

Otto, 

NCRP 145 gives effective doses for intraoral full mouth series and 5-10 mrem per series with film is a good ballpark.  With digital receptors you can cut that by up to half.  Technique, cone length and cone shape all make a difference here too.

Panoramic is somewhere circa 1-2 millirem per scan (values vary again with technique, unit, etc...).

Dental CBCT has effective doses from about 6 to 26+ per scan depending on unit, scan area and technique factors.


Bryan Lemieux, M.S., CHP
Radiation Safety Officer
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
3 N Dunlap St. S110 Van Vleet Bldg
Memphis, TN 38163
Phone:  901-448-6114
Fax:      901-448-7774

Please note my new email address: blemieux at uthsc.edu



-----Original Message-----
From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Otto G. Raabe
Sent: Monday, June 06, 2011 11:41 AM
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Subject: [ RadSafe ] Dental X-ray doses


>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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