This subcourse is designed to acquaint you with fundamental concepts of dental radiography. It seeks to familiarize you with the techniques of positioning the patient, the tubehead, and film as well as exposing and processing dental radiographs. A knowledge of radiography is essential to understanding the dangers inherent in the use of X-rays. Radiographs are used in helping the dental or medical officer to make diagnoses. There are examples in this subcourse of commonly produced radiographs. Utmost care must be taken to follow the rules for exposing and processing X-ray films to ensure that diagnostic quality radiographs are produced.
DesignationMD0512
EditionUndated
StatusSuperseded
Pages99
FunctionMedical TCCC
CollectionRecent Archive
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