How Can X-Rays Harm The Human Body

Apart of becoming a new patient at a dental office is taking an x-ray and some may have question along with taking an x-ray, like “will I be affected by the x-ray?” or “will I get cancer?”, “how long will it take” “are x-ray’s safe?”, the list goes on and on. So in this paper we will talk about different types of radiation affects such as affects on children and pregnant women as well as some things that may help reduce some of the radiation that may harm the human body.

In dentistry there is a need for taking an x-ray, the x-ray is a way to help the dentist diagnose a patients oral hygiene and to see if there are any other areas in the mouth that may need to have any type of work. The dentist or the assistant will want to make sure that they can get all the teeth

Even though using a digital radiograph has its benefit it can also increase the dosage to a patient if the image quality is too high. You can try to avoid unnecessary exposure to a patient by making sure that x-rays are taking in the amount of time that is necessary each year and by taking them accurately. Making a routine habit of taking an x-ray may not be the best because every patients mouth is not the same as the last, you will want to treat every patient differently. “A full series of 18 dental x-rays has 27 times less radiation than a lower gastrointestinal series and 20 times less radiation that one year of normal background radiation from the environment.”

When radiation dose is mentioned often wonder what does that mean, well a radiation dose is just how much energy is being taken into the human body when taking an x-ray. The amount of energy that can be taken into the body can become dangerous and damaging to a person causing life time effects such as liver cancer or maybe even a