Guidance

Dental radiographic X-ray imaging: dose to patients

This report reviews data on patient doses and equipment trends in dental X-ray imaging procedures between 2014 and 2017.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 18 July 2019
• Last updated: 17 September 2020 — See all updates

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Dental radiographic X-ray imaging: dose to patients

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This report reviews data between 2014 and 2017 on patient doses from all types of dental X-ray imaging procedures including:

• intra oral
• panoramic
• cephalometric
• cone beam CT (CBCT)

Public Health England and its predecessor organisations have carried out national reviews of patient dose indices at regular intervals for more than 20 years.

The last review of radiographic and fluoroscopic imaging procedures in 2010 formed the basis of the current UK National Diagnostic Reference Levels (NDRLs) for these applications.

This new review is necessary to either confirm that the existing NDRLs are still suitable or to set new values.

Published 18 July 2019
Last updated 17 September 2020 + show all updates

1. 17 September 2020

   Updated 2019 report: PHE-CRCE-59.

2. 18 July 2019

   First published.