Providing the radiographers with a radiation monitoring device is good risk management

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

TRUE
Explanation: Providing all radiographers with a radiation monitoring badge, whether required by law or not, is also good risk management. Monitoring radiation exposure, or more precisely the lack of exposure, will provide the practice with documentation of safe work habits.

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A) The loss of the kidneys' ability to filter the blood and remove toxins and excess fluid from the body B) The process by which toxins and excess fluid are removed from the body by a medical system independent of the kidneys C) An inherited disease in which a genetic defect in the hemoglobin results in abnormal structure of the red blood cells D) A lack of a normal number of red blood cells in the circulation

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Your dentist asks you to expose a periapical radiograph showing the mesial of #3, and after exposing the radiograph, you observe overlapping. The most likely cause is

too much vertical angulation. radiograph not in the path of the primary beam. too little exposure in interproximal areas. too much horizontal angulation.

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