Case study While taking a full mouth series of dental radiographs on your patient, he begins to consider the number of radiographs that are exposed in this operatory on a daily basis. He decides to...

Case study

While taking a full mouth series of dental radiographs on your patient, he begins to consider the number of radiographs that are exposed in this operatory on a daily basis. He decides to ask you questions such as, “How long do you have to wait after each exposure before you can re-enter the room?” and “Are the walls and equipment in this room becoming radioactive from all the exposures taken in here?” Prepare a conversation with this patient addressing these two questions based on what you learned in this chapter on radiation physics