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0.2 – Single digital dental x-ray pa or bw view
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1.4 – Digital x-ray bitewing series of 7 separate views
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3.6 – Full mouth digital x-rays
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8-10 – Daily dose of natural background radiation we are all exposed to. This background radiation exposes your entire body versus medical or dental x-rays are more focused. Therefore less hazardous.
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24-40 – Dose of radiation during a 4 hour commercial airplane flight
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36 – Eating one banana per day for a year
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100 – Living in a brick house instead of a wood-frame house for one year
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1500-3000 – Mammogram
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10000 – Cooking with natural gas every day (releases radon) for one year
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50000 – Maximum yearly allowed occupational dose set by the U.S. FDA |
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