Is My Child At Risk From Dental X Rays?
This is the headline from Reuters on April 11, 2012 “A new study suggests people who had certain kinds of dental X-rays in the past may be at an increased risk for meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor in the U.S.” So waht is the reality for me and my child? Quoting Dr Elizabeth Claus, the study’s lead author and a professor at the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. “It’s likely that the exposure association we’re seeing here is past exposure, and past exposure levels were much higher,” Meanwhile, while the risk may be minimized by this reporting, parents are right to be concerned and have Radiation Fears until there is more hard data available. How do we practice “caveat emptor” on this kind of press release scare?