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Judging the image

Whether a radiograph is good enough to read, and what that judgement costs.

A dental technician positions an intraoral X-ray tube at a seated patient wearing a lead collar.

ALADA and ALARA

ALARA and ALADA are the two radiation-protection principles named in dental radiography guidance. ALARA — as low as reasonably achievable — constrains the…

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A clinician at a light box reading a panoramic radiograph, the review that decides whether a film is diagnostic or a retake.

Reject analysis

Reject analysis is a periodic audit that counts how many radiographs were taken but never used for diagnosis, and records why. In general-radiography…

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