Three nation-wide surveys in 1970, 1974 and 1976 were carried out for the estimation of the current status of dental radiography in Japan. The surveys has reported that 2860.0×10
4 intraoral radiograms were taken in 1970, 8892.1×10
4 intraoral radiograms in 1974, and the latest our survey proved 6419.0×10
4 intraoral radiograms in 1976. The causes of those decreasing numbers in the later part of our estimation, it might be due to the rapid gaining ground of orthopantomography in general practice of Japan.
The present authors revealed several findings which are direct exposure on operators' fingers, unnecessary exposure for patients, and etc., from the analysis of survey data of 1976 on the radiation hazards in general practice and dental department in the general hospitals.
Advisable findings were as follows;
1. Radiation shield room:
20% of all the dental clinics and 58% of dental department of the general hospitals had a shield room for the radiation protection, the figures shows larger necessity of improvement of shielding against radiation hazard of private dental clinics compared with dental department of general hospitals.
2. Direct exposure the operators' fingers: Unfavourable practice were observed of holding a dental film in the mouth of a pati ent by the fingertips of the operator at the time of an exposure. They feel it an urgent responsibility of dental and medical authorities to warn against it, and to invent any tool that can replace such as dangerous practice.
3. Unuseful radiation control:
There emerged necessity of encouraging the personal dosage monitoring for operators and to use protective apron on the patients.
4. Over dose control:
The justification of exposure field dimensions and that standardization of dental film processing methods would be brought about 30 % decreasing of the exposure for intraoral radiography.
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