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...team of researchers at the School of Dental Medicine will begin a study in July to determine when dentists should x-ray their patients...
Because no intensifying screen is used to enhance the image in a dental x-ray, dental radiographs expose the patient to about ten times the amount of radiation that a chest x-ray does...
Panoramics, x-rays which photograph the entire mouth, expose the salivary glands and the active bone marrow in the jaw to large doses of radiation. The salivary glands and jaw are not exposed to such extensive radiation by any other type of x-ray...
...testimony last week, Dr. Alan Spievack, one of the UHS physicians named in the suit, said he advised Glicklich to have a mammogrem x-ray test, adding that the results of the test convinced him that the lump was not cancerous...
Robbins, however, said that Spievack should not have based his diagnosis on the X-ray test, which he said often yields inaccurate results. Robbins also criticized the conduct of another defendant, Dr. Joan Golub, a private gynecologist Glicklich first consulted after discovering the lump...