Why Does My Child Need X-Rays?

When you take your child to visit the dentist on their six month check-up it may be recommended that you have x-rays completed. While there is a small amount of radiation exposure, the benefit outweighs the harm when proper precautions are taken.  Your pediatric dentist may recommend x-rays for your children for a variety of reasons. X-rays are an electromagnetic wave of sort lengths with high energy that passes through materials opaque to light.

X-rays are used in order to see cavities between the teeth. Due to the small space between the teeth, a dentist with a naked eye would not be able to see if there are cavities developing. However, by taking an x-ray of the different areas in the mouth cavities are illuminated and treatment can occur.

If your child is in pain due to dental decay and your child needs a pulpotomy Dr. Cameron Fuller may take x-rays in order to see how deep the decay is.   And radiographs may also be recommended in order to evaluate how much space there is between teeth, whether permanent teeth are developing correctly, if wisdom teeth are impacted, or to determine the progression of bone disease.

In determining what if any orthodontic treatment your child needs also requires x-rays because the dentist will need to be able to see below the gums in order to determine how your child’s teeth are sitting in the mouth and how the teeth are erupting in the mouth.

While Pediatric dentist Dr. Fuller may recommend x-rays, he’ll take every precaution to protect your child.




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