RE: Dental radiology; xeroradiography

["Gibbs, S Julian" <s.julian.gibbs@vanderbilt.edu>]

Sorry I cannot agree.  It is clear that a great deal of time, 

effort, and money has been squandered in attempts to achieve 

miniscule reductions in radiation doses already so low that the 

reduction makes no difference.  However, in the case of intraoral 

dental radiography, the reduction is achieved at NO cost in time, 

effort, or image quality--and may even save a little money in 

reduced wear and tear on the x-ray machine.



--On Thursday, April 18, 2002 11:33 AM -0400 Ted Rockwell 

<tedrock@cpcug.org> wrote:



>> I think

> we all agree that if we can reduce unnecessary radiation exposure

> at no cost, then we should do so.  This has nothing to do with

> LNT.  It is just common sense.

>

> No, that has nothing to do with common sense.  It's just LNT.

>

> Ted Rockwell

>

>







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