Doses in eye lens, thyroid, salivary glands, mammary glands, and gonads, due to radiation scattered in dental orthopantomography. (April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Campillo-Rivera, Guillermo Eduardo; Vázquez-Bañuelos, Joel; García-Duran, Ángel; Escalona-Llaguno, Martha Isabel; Arteaga, Marcial Vásquez; Vega-Carrillo, Hector Rene
• Is Part Of: Applied radiation and isotopes. Volume 146(2019:Apr.)
• Page Start: 57
• Page End: 60
• Publication Date: 2019-04
• Subjects: Orthopantography -- Dental -- X-rays -- Absorbed dose -- Effective dose -- TLD-100; Radiology -- Periodicals; Radiation -- Industrial applications -- Periodicals; Nuclear chemistry -- Periodicals; Internet resource; Periodical; 660.298
• DOI: 10.1016/j.apradiso.2019.01.022
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0969-8043

Abstract

Abstract: In the aim to support treatments and diagnostics in Dentistry the most common radiographies are the periapical radiography and the dental panoramic. In the dental panoramic the X-ray beam is addressed into a large zone of the face obtaining the image of the upper and lower jaw. In this procedure part of the X-rays are scattered reaching some other parts of the patient body. In this work the absorbed dose in the eye lens, thyroid, salivary glands, mammary glands, and gonads, was measured in patients undergoing a dental orthopantomography. Measurements were carried out with thermolmuminiscent dosimeters. With the absorbed doses the Effective dose were calculated. The highest dose was obtained in the salivary glands (30.4 μSv) and the lowest dose was obtained in thyroid (3.8 μSv). Highlights: Doses due to the scattered radiation during dental orthopantography were measured. Doses were measured with TLD-100s in male and female patients. The Effective doses in eye lens, thyroid, gonads and salivary and mammary glands were calculated.