caa a22 4500 397503261 CHVBK 20180308164537.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082555 doi 0144-8420 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082555 Radiation Protection Problems with Dental Radiological Equipment [Elektronische Daten] [P. Cooney, G. Gavin, J. Rajan, J.F. Malone] With the advent of the EC Patient Directive, the importance of surveying and optimising patient exposure for diagnostic imaging procedures is paramount. In the field of dentistry there has been a heightened interest in areas of equipment performance and patient exposure. This interest, coupled with a number of dental radiation safety incidents investigated by our department, and the issuing of a Code of Practice for Radiological Protection in Dentistry by the Department of Health, led to the establishment in our department, of an evaluation protocol for the performance and operation of dental X ray equipment. The protocol was used to perform a survey on over 100 dental X ray units in use in the Public Sector in Ireland. This presentation will report on the radiation incidents mentioned above. It will detail the protocol and furnish the results and conclusions of the survey. The survey has made it possible to establish clearly the necessary steps required to ensure compliance with requirements. In addition, the corrective steps taken by the dental authorities will be presented and the overall impact of the regulations and the programme consequent on them will be reviewed. Radiation Protection Dosimetry Cooney P. aut Gavin G. aut Rajan J. aut Malone J.F. aut Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 57/1-4(1995-01-01), 339-342 0144-8420 57:1-4<339 1995 57 rpd https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.rpd.a082555 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cooney P. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gavin G. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Rajan J. aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Malone J.F. aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Radiation Protection Dosimetry Oxford University Press 57/1-4(1995-01-01), 339-342 0144-8420 57:1-4<339 1995 57 rpd Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford