Considerations of Radiation in Endodontics: An Update

Abstract

Radiation is potentially harmful. Unfortunately, the manifestation of this harm may not be realized for upto 10 to 20 years. For many diagnostic dilemmas encountered in the practice of dentistry, periapical, bitewing, or panoramic radiography may be appropriate and sufficient. In other cases, higher and advanced radiographic techniques may be advised based on clinical need and maximizing diagnostic benefit. Even though radiographs are an indispensable diagnostic aid in endodontics, but it is important for dentists to have a basic understanding of xray radiation so that their patients, and in particular children and adolescents, are not placed in unnecessary risk. The optimum search strategy was combined with the above-mentioned terms and used to search MEDLINE from 1983 to 2015. A similar search was undertaken Embase (1988–2013) and Health STAR. Two reviewers scanned all titles and abstracts where available, and decided whether or not they were related to radiation in any way Manual searches of reference lists of the relevant articles were also completed to identify additional publications. limited gray literature searches were conducted along with Google Scholar to identify any relevant publications that may have been missed by the electronic database searches.