Re: Radiation in X-Rays?

orthodmd wrote:
On May 29, 3:28 pm, Captain Infinity <Infin...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So I'm at the dentist's office for a cleaning, and the tech says she
needs current X-rays. She takes, I dunno, maybe three or four on each
side for the molars. The she has me stand inside this semi-circular
thing that goes around my head for "the full set". While they're
developing she does the cleaning. Then she looks at them and says she
needs to do the full set thing again because something is warped
(probably because the dumb thing hit the lead shield draped over me as
it swung around). So I stand in this thing again and sure enough, it
hits me again. Yep, that try is crap. So the dentist tells her to take
more spot pictures of my front teeth "to fill in the blanks", and she
shoots X-rays into my head about six or eight times more.

By now, of course, my teeth are glowing from all the radiation she's
pumped into me and my hair is falling out. I noticed that she stepped
outside the room each time she flipped the switch, so she's safe, but I
wonder just how long do I have before I die of brain cancer?

**
Captain Infinity

please send the photos of your deterioration



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Steve
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