New research, published in the American Cancer Society journal Cancer, has found that getting regular dental X-rays may significantly increase the risk of developing nonmalignant brain tumors. In ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study suggests people who had certain kinds of dental X-rays in the past may be at an increased risk for meningioma, the most commonly diagnosed brain tumor in the ...

The measurable quantity is the entrance surface air kerma/dose. The unit of entrance surface kerma is the gray (Gy), but in dental radiology the dose levels are usually a small fraction of one gray - ...