Medically reviewed by Edmund Khoo, DDS Key Takeaways Dental X-rays help find cavities and check bone levels. Periapical ...

Dental X-rays can detect small health issues before they become major, but these procedures aren’t free. A good dental insurance policy can reduce your total costs, but you’ll still have to pay some ...

For many healthy people, dental X-rays are the only time we are exposed to X-ray radiation. And, most of the time, we don’t really give it another thought. Dental X-rays are a part of routine dental ...

Even if you have healthy, adult teeth and gums your dentist may recommend X-rays be taken every year. The dental profession, however, says otherwise. Annual preventive X-rays, called bitewings, for ...

When my son and daughter were youngsters, once a year I’d have a disagreement with their pediatric dentist. He wanted to do routine annual X-rays, and I would protest because neither child ever had ...

Many years ago, Jay W. Friedman, a Los Angeles dentist, referred a woman to a renowned periodontist. A few years later, she told Friedman that the periodontist exposed her every year to a full-mouth ...

Dental X-rays (radiographs) are images of your teeth that your dentist uses to evaluate your oral health. These X-rays are used with low levels of radiation to capture images of the interior of your ...