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ISSN (Print) 1013-9052
EISSN 1658-3558
The Saudi Dental Journal,
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Radiation Doses To The Male Gonadal Area In Dental Radiography
Tarnjit Saini, BDS, MS, Dip ABOMR,* V. Manoharan, BE,** I.A.N. Al-Agil***
*Creighton University, 2500 California Plaza, Omaha, Nebraska 68178, USA **King Khalid University Hospital, P.O.Box 7805, Riyadh 11472, Saudi Arabia ***College of Science, KingSaud University, P.O.Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia
The radiation dose to the male gonadal area was measured during routine intra-oral and panoramic radiography. It was found to be 0.8 millirad and 0.3 millirad, respectively. The estimated dose can be compared to one to three days of gonadal dose a person would receive from the background radiation. It entails a theoretical risk of very low magnitude.
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