Pediatric Exposure - Dentsply Sirona Orthophos E Ceph Operating Instructions Manual

5 Operation
5.1 Acquiring the X-ray image
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Pediatric exposure

Compared to middle-aged adults, children and adolescents are three
times more at risk from radiation. A justifying indication requires that the
health benefits of use outweigh the risk posed by radiation. Other
procedures with similar health benefits that do not involve any, or only
involve low-level, exposure to radiation must be preferred when
weighing up the situation.
Medical radiation exposure as part of dental care provided to children
and adolescents must produce sufficient benefits, whereby radiation
exposure resulting from an X-ray examination is to be limited as much
as can be accepted with the requirements of medical science (the
ALARA principle).
Dentsply Sirona offers numerous options for reducing the radiation
exposure for adults, and especially for children and adolescents, to a
necessary minimum. Furthermore, there are numerous options for
simplifying the X-ray applications for children and adolescents.
Please observe the detailed descriptions on these in the respective
chapters of these Operating Instructions!
Dose reduction
Overview of the options for reducing doses, in particular for children
and adolescents, with the Orthophos E:
● Using the P10 children's panoramic exposures.
– The exposures present a reduced tooth region without
ascending rami. In addition, exposure times are reduced and the
exposure dose is cut by up to 40% compared to panorama layer
imaging P1.
● Selecting the relevant patient symbol for children/adolescents.
– The two smallest patient symbols represent the exposure values
for children/adolescents. Through their reduction in the kV/mA
values for these exposure parameters, the dose is lowered
accordingly.
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Operating Instructions Orthophos E
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D3352.201.12.01.02 03.2019