RE: Dental X-Rays Might Lead to Small Babies

[John Jacobus <crispy_bird@yahoo.com>]

There was a study that showed an increase in new born

deaths in the US.  The reason is that we have medical

procedures that allow those babies that would have

died in uterio to be delivered.  My first guess, as

noted below, is that this was not a well prepared

study that look at all confounding factors, such as

second-hand smoking, nutrition, etc., and such factors

as increased, but underweight, deliveries.



--- "Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov> wrote:

> Since heart problems and dental work have been

> linked (due to bacterial entry to the bloodstream

> through the exposed tissue) this seems to be a

> confounding factor worth investigation.

> 

> Dave Neil

> 

> -----Original Message-----

> From: Laurenson, Jim

> [mailto:JLaurenson@icfconsulting.com]

> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 10:00 AM

> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

> Subject: RE: Dental X-Rays Might Lead to Small

> Babies

> 

> 

> Sadly, studies like this, where "the researchers

> lacked information on

> why the women received X-rays", result in headlines

> like "Baby's weight

> depends on mom's X-ray exposure".  If the underlying

> causes of the low

> birth weights are the dental problems being

> addressed by the X-rays and

> thus now fewer pregnant women will be addressing

> their dental problems

> because of such headlines, then we can expect an

> INCREASE in low birth

> weight babies now...

> 

> James Laurenson

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-- John

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist

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