Dental Radiography - Unit Exam Bundle

The aim of a quality assurance programme of radiographs is to keep exposure and processing faults to a minimum. What are the acceptable ratios? - Answer-Score 1 - 70% Score 2 - 20% Score 3 - 10% Where on the body is the recommended position to place a monitoring badge, which is used to identify ...

Ionising Radiation Regulations (1999) - Answer-Protection of staff involved in the use of ionising radiation Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations (2000) - Answer-Protection of patients undergoing radiographic procedures Local Rules - Answer-Kept in radiation protection file Main poi...

Radiation cannot be - Answer-seen, heard or felt Quality assurance in radiography is a - Answer-Legal requirement Recall patients who have a high caries risk should be radiographed at what intervals using horizontal bitewings? - Answer-6 months What is the purpose of black paper in intraoral fil...

Mild burns, cell mutation and cancer are all hazards of what? - Answer-Ionising radiation from x-rays Can X-rays be seen, heard or felt? - Answer-No What is the safe level of use with x-rays? - Answer-There isn't a safe level What does every radiation exposure cause? - Answer-Tissue damage Long...

Radiography - Answer-Is the use of electromagnetic radiation to form 2 dimentional images of the inside of the human body x-ray image - Answer-Radiogaph Radioopaque - Answer-Appears white (Light/grey) areas of the film after exposure. This shows structures that radiation does NOT easily pass thr...

Ionising Radiation - Answer-Type of electromagnetic radiation that possesses energy, capable of passing through matter such as human tissue What happens when x-rays pass or hit the atoms of the matter? - Answer-They are: Unaltered, Scattered, Absorbed Radiopaque - Answer-Substances of greater de...