Unreliable quality, resolution, age and completeness prohibit us from accepting dental x-rays from outside offices for new patients. We take an updated full digital x-ray set on new patients for superior quality control purposes. More information regarding our general diagnostic imaging protocols are available at the office.
For patients worried about radiation, a full mouth series of X-rays is 0.2% of the radiation the average adult human is exposed to from natural and man-made sources within a year. An x-ray of your abdomen is 38x more radiation than a full set of dental x-rays. Modern digital dental radiography units produce extremely low amounts of radiation.