Case study You work for a temporary agency that provides staffing for oral health care practices in your area. Today your employer has sent you to a practice organized and set up for a lefthanded...

Case study

You work for a temporary agency that provides staffing for oral health care practices in your area. Today your employer has sent you to a practice organized and set up for a lefthanded practitioner. Your first patient requires a bitewing series of radiographs. You expose the films and proceed to the darkroom for processing. Unknown to you, this practice has set up the manual processing tanks with the developing solution tank on the right and the fixer tank on the left. You are used to working with processing tanks set up with the developing solution on the left and the fixer on the right, and you proceed to process your films in this manner. What effect will this have on the resultant radiographs? Why will they look this way? Explain why the processing solutions will produce this result. What can you do to avoid this mistake in the future? What can this practice do to prevent this mistake from happening again?