The Quality of Periapical Dental X-Ray in Wad Medani Dental Teaching Hospital, Sudan

Quality of x-ray is one of important dental investigation and help to Good Diagnostic Quality “Radiographs are necessaryfor the evaluation and diagnosis of many oral conditions and diseases.Radiographs should be specific to the needs and requirements of each particular patient”, low quality is effects in diagnosis and treatment, The aim of this study is to assess the quality of X ray in wad medani dental teaching hospital and its impacton work. The result: Among group was selected, 22.8% were male where as 77.2%were female. The educational level: under graduate 62.2%, post graduate 37.8%. The dentist ask for X-ray for every patient about 16.5%. The most dentistask for X-ray for endodontic 52%. The quality of X-ray at the hospitalis low by 69,3%. The cause of the low quality is: the machine quality, 37.8% and the technician problem, 37%. The quality of X-ray is affects dental diagnosis and treatment about 97.6%.