Dental radiology reddit

Radiation exposure associated with dentistry represents a minor contribution to the total exposure from all sources, including natural and man-made

The ADA has joined with more than 80 other health care organizations to promote Image Gently, an initiative to “child size” radiographic examination of children in medicine and dentistry

The scattered radiation is so little it's just not worth the effort

But even if you wanted to: if you are x-raying your teeth, any scattered radiation entering the brain will be coming from inside the mouth, travelling upwards into the brain

So you would need to shield the brain from inside your mouth somehow

There is every reason to x- ray your jaw if you have a problem but there is no reason to let even a small amount of stray radiation irradiate other parts of you while doing so

In particular the parts involved in reproduction, the testes and ovaries due to the remote posdibility of genetic damage