Radiation dose from CT
Hundreds of cancer cases blamed on dentist x-rays
RADIATION FROM X-rays in dentist surgeries and hospitals causes 700 people in Britain to develop cancer each year, researchers* said today………
…. head of medical dosimetry at NRPB said: “CT scanning is expanding so rapidly. The images are so fantastic that not a lot of attention is being paid to the doses used.”
*Ref: Risk of cancer from diagnostic X-rays: estimates for the UK and 14 other countries,The Lancet, Vol 363, Jan 31, 2004