Is CariFree a good fit for your practice? Typically the offices we work with are seeing 1 or more of a couple things in their practice. Your patients are getting cavities; maybe as little as 1 a year, but often more. Our teams are telling us that this is no longer just their pediatric patients, but the teenagers, those going through orthodontic treatment, patients taking medications that are experiencing dry mouth, their elderly patients are living longer, etc. Could you say that any of your patients fit into those categories?
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This is Part II of a three part series on dental and orthodontic x-rays. This covers the risks of dental x-rays and how they relate to other day-to-day risks that we take. Emphasis is placed on the Health Physics literature and the quantification of risk. There are many ways of expressing quantified risk, but here we will use the loss of life expectancy (LLE). Viewers will be relieved to learn that many common risks that we consider negligible (drinking coffee, driving, riding a bike) are far greater risks than anything encountered in dental x-ray imaging. If fact, a single 3D Orthodontic X-ray (CBCT) is equal in risk to crossing the street 38 times.

Dr. Mark Friedman describes the use of unit dose for an Infection Control Environment (ICE) and its impact on office efficiency.