Purpose: Typically implemented as a safety measure, checklists can reduce risks and
improve patient outcomes. Checklists have been widely used in medicine, but rarely applied …

Purpose: Typically implemented as a safety measure, checklists can reduce risks and
improve patient outcomes. Checklists have been widely used in medicine, but rarely applied …

Purpose: A checklist intervention was applied to the dental radiographic acquisition process
to determine its effectiveness in improving the diagnostic value of bitewing images and …

Background: The objectives of this study were two-fold: 1) to investigate the prevalence of
client re-exposure from images taken by dental hygiene students; and 2) to examine the …

A guiding principle of radiation safety is ensuring that radiation dosage is as low as possible
while yielding the necessary diagnostic information. Intraoral images taken with …

Background Potential harm from ionizing radiation has led to the development of guidelines
to protect patients and practitioners from unnecessary radiation exposure; however, these …

BACKGROUND Use of rectangular collimators has been shown to reduce exposure rates
compared with round collimators. 1-3 However, transitioning from round to rectangular …

Objective. The purpose of this study was to identify the causes of excessive exposure in
those dental practices that were found to use exceptionably high levels of radiation in …

The bitewing radiograph (BWR) has been used in dental practice for over 90 years and is a
widely used technique. This paper outlines the ideal technique for producing reproducible …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the dentist's knowledge and practice
about dose reduction techniques, radiographic equipment and quality of dental radiographic …