Are you ever concerned about taking X-ray images working with X-ray units? Personal dosimetry badges are a way to help provide reassurance and peace of mind ‘knowing’ what radiation dose you have been exposed to in your everyday working environment. They are called...

In the face of technology advancements, how can the talent of the future be developed and trained to suit the skills this will demand? I am often asked if it is ok for a dental nurse with a dental radiography qualification to be able to take Cone Beam CT (CBCT) images...

Dental Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) is viewed - quite rightly - nowadays as an invaluable tool for dentists in areas such as treatment planning, implant dentistry, endodontics and aspects of periodontal assessment and current CBCT units can and do produce...

Hand-Held Dental X-Ray Units So you want/need new x-ray equipment – how about a hand-held dental unit? Actually why not, as this may well be a good alternative to consider for your circumstances (you have a number of rooms in which you want to take x-rays and one or...

Modern Dentist Magazine Edition 5 Are there any areas where public perception may be improved in the profession? Are you sure I should be having this x-ray - radiation is dangerous isn’t it? This (or some similar comment) is a question we are often told still comes...

Modern Dentist Editorial 2 (19.2.2018) IR(ME)R 2017 Following on from the institution of the latest Ionising Radiations Regulations (IRR17) at the beginning of January, the new Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations came into force on the 6th February -...

Modern Dentist Magazine - Editorial 1 I hope you are aware (if not where have you been, or rather more importantly where has your Radiation Protection Adviser (RPA) been by not keeping you up to date) but by the time you read this article the new ‘Ionising Radiations...