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How much exposure to radiation to i get from a dental xray?

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Dr. Meng Syn answered

Not much: Here is a chart of the relative collected doses measured from various sources in (2005) measured in thousand person-sieverts natural background 720.0 medical radiography 899.0 nuclear medicine 231.0 dental radiography 2.5 nuclear power 0.1 published in 2009 in journal of radiology.

Answered 11/20/2012

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