1. A patient who is scheduled for an x-ray expresses concerns about being exposed to radiation because he witnessed the effects of radiation on his father, who died of cancer.
a. How should the dental assistant respond to this patient’s concerns?
b. What can you tell the patient about x-ray film and other radiation safety measures?
2. As you prepare a young teenager for a cephalometric image, his father, an engineer, asks about the content of the film cassette. As you explain the contents of the cassette to be a large sheet of x-ray film tightly held against an intensifying screen, he interrupts asking, “What? An intensifying screen?”
a. What factors should you consider before responding?
b. How would you explain safety measures used during exposure?
3. A new assistant has just been hired and has been instructed to help the dental assistant prepare a full set of x-rays on two new patients. The dental assistant decides to take the x-rays herself and instructs the new assistant to develop the first set of x-rays while the dental assistant continues with the second patient. After developing the x-rays, the new assistant presents the x-rays to the dental assistant. The x-rays are cloudy, chalky, and unreadable.
a. How should this situation be handled?
b. Should the x-rays be retaken?
4. Nathan Sawyer, a patient in your office, calls and states that he is moving out of state and needs his dental radiographs before he moves next week.
a. What precautions does the dental radiographer need to take prior to releasing Nathan’s x-rays?
b. What is the correct protocol to release radiographs to a patient?
5. Discuss the five basic sizes of intraoral dental film. Discuss the difference between periapical, bite-wing, and occlusal film.
a. What are the sizes of intraoral film?
b. What are the differences between periapical, bite-wings, and occlusal radiographs?
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