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The first dental X-rays were made in the same year they were discovered - 1895. We have seen the huge, radiation-scattering dental X-ray machines evolve to smaller, safer, faster, and better equipment.
Now, digital radiography is ushering in even greater things for us. As more manufacturers enter the field - offering new and better ideas - digital radiography is quickly becoming accepted by dental and medical offices as an answer to many problems. Soon film, processors, chemicals, and darkrooms will be obsolete. Digital radiography requires less than 10 percent of the radiation as film units, and the results are many times more useful to the practitioner and peripheral industries in the dental and medical fields.
We know that radiation can be harmful to human beings. Dental X-ray machines produce radiation in very small doses and are not thought to be a significant risk to the patient or staff personnel. Even those of us in the business of testing and repairing radiation producers have experienced only insignificant amounts of exposure, despite being in much closer proximity to...