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Quality assurance for dental radiography

10 mins read Impression taking, radiography and photography
Quality assurance programmes for dental radiography are needed to ensure that images are consistently of a high standard. All aspects of the imaging process must be monitored to reduce the number of repeat radiographs needed, and to ensure radiography is carried out efficiently

Quality assurance (QA) in dental radiography is a statutory requirement of any dental practice (HM Government, 1999; 2000). All practices should have QA programmes for dental radiography. This article will give details of quality control measures; dental nurses may be involved in carrying these out.

The World Health Organization (Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine, 2005) defines QA as:

‘The organised effort by the staff operating a facility to ensure that the diagnostic images produced by the facility are of sufficiently high quality so that they consistently provide adequate diagnostic information at the lowest possible cost with the least possible exposure of the patient to radiation.’

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