Dental X-Ray: Almost Everyone Does This at The Dentist's Office - Why It's a Possible Recipe for Brain Cancer
A study in the journal Canceri
shows that people who have had dental X-rays are more likely to develop
a type of brain tumor called meningioma than those who have not.
According to CNN Healthii :
"The meningioma patients had more than a two-fold increased
likelihood of having ever experienced a dental X-ray test called a
bitewing exam. Depending on the age at which the exams were done, those
who'd had these exams on a yearly basis, or more often, were 1.4 to
1.9 times more likely to have had a meningioma.
... Panorex exams, which involve images of all of the teeth on one
film, were also linked to meningioma risks. If study participants had
panorex exams when they were younger than 10 years old, their risk of
meningioma went up 4.9 times. One of these around-the-head X-rays
carries about twice as much radiation as four bitewing X-rays."
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1 comment:
And if you ask not to have a regular x-ray, when there's no indication of any problem, you may be told that they can't treat you, even with a signed waiver, because it goes against their professional treatment standards set by their professional association, as I was told several years ago.
The problem is government monopoly granted over certification and over-regulation. Some so-called third world countries have better and cheaper dental treatment for basic dentistry.
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