A person can receive a greater radiation dose on a plane flight to Spain then from an x-ray of the wrist or shoulder.
We carefully follow the current national guidelines for dental radiography and use modern, low radiation dose dental x-ray machines.
This has consequences for the radiation dose rate to the skin from radon decay products which is much higher outdoors compared with indoors.
For example, radiation dose from modern computed tomography scanners may be in excess of that produced by older models.
New CT scanners have preset imaging features that allow scanning at the lowest radiation dose for the child's weight and age.
