Worries About Radiation Exposure to Children in the Dentist’s Chair

cone-beam scan

An image from a cone-beam CT scanner used by dentists.

Because children and adolescents are particularly vulnerable to radiation, doctors three years ago mounted a national campaign to protect them by reducing diagnostic radiation to only those levels seen as absolutely necessary.

 

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