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Guidance notes for dental practitioners on the safe use of x-ray equipment

The aim is to provide dental practitioners with a convenient publication upon which to evaluate and base their compliance with those parts of the new regulations that apply to the use of x-rays in a dental practice. The drafting was undertaken under an informal agreement between the British Dental Association (BDA), the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine (IPEM) and the National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB). IPEM have revised the more general Guidance Notes that relate to both Medical and Dental uses of ionising radiation and which apply principally to the hospital environment.

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