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Dental X-Rays
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- If you can't stay still or hold the X-ray plastic or cardboard in your teeth.
- If you have braces, retainers, dentures, bridges, and certain body piercings (ear, tongue, lip, cheek, or nose).
| By: | Reference Healthwise Staff | Last Revised: Reference June 13, 2012 |
| Medical Review: | Reference Patrice Burgess, MD - Family Medicine
Reference Steven K. Patterson, BS, DDS, MPH - Dentistry |
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