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RE: X-Ray picture...

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Posted by: joeysgreen at Thu Jul 8 20:12:06 2004   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by joeysgreen ]  
   

I hope you weren't the vet assistant who's gotten into the habit of X-raying your hand! lol

Of course the second is gravid, ooh a daisy

In response to the above post, one set of X-rays only raises the risk of deformity by the smallest fraction of a percent. Especially with snakes as the mAs used is very minute. As pertained to by my joke about the hand, it is repeated Xray's over a long period of time that may disrupt the nucleic matter in multiplying cells. Thus it is fast developing tissue that is most at risk, ie the gonads and/or fetal tissue. X-ray technicians wear docometers to measure the radiation they are succepted to. I've never had mine even register on the scale given. It may be different however if I wore it on my finger and left it in the shot (*poke*)

   

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