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Dental Radiology Exam Practice Questions and Answers (100% Pass) 3 requirements for NJ State Dental Radiology Technology exam - Answer️️ -18 years old high school diploma or equivalency (GED) NJ State approved 45 hour course including required hours of clinical practice Who discovered x-...

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Dental Radiology Exam Practice
Questions and Answers (100% Pass)

3 requirements for NJ State Dental Radiology Technology exam -
Answer✔️✔️-18 years old

high school diploma or equivalency (GED)

NJ State approved 45 hour course including required hours of clinical
practice

Who discovered x-rays? - Answer✔️✔️-Dr. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen

aka: Wilhelm VonRoentgen

When was x-rays discovered? - Answer✔️✔️-1895

Who was Dr. Otto Walkoff? - Answer✔️✔️-German dentist in 1896; first to
use x-rays for dental

Who was Dr. Edmund Kells? - Answer✔️✔️-first American dentist to use x-
rays

Who was Cyzinski? - Answer✔️✔️-developed the bisecting angle technique

What are x-rays? - Answer✔️✔️-electromagnetic radiation (EMR)

What determines the penetrating power of various EMR? - Answer✔️✔️-
wavelength

What do medical EMR rays fall under? - Answer✔️✔️-gamma rays



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Principle characteristics of EMR(4): - Answer✔️✔️-~travels at speed of
light(186,000 miles/second)

~pure energy- no mass or weight

~travels through space in wave motions

~electric and magnetic fields surround them as they travel through space

What are wavelengths? - Answer✔️✔️-distance between successive peaks
along a wave

What is frequency? - Answer✔️✔️-oscillations emitted per second

What are oscillations? - Answer✔️✔️-number of wavelengths

shorter wavelengths have - Answer✔️✔️-higher frequencies and more
penetrating rays

What are red rays? - Answer✔️✔️-Longest wavelengths in visible spectrum

What are violet rays? - Answer✔️✔️-shorter wavelengths

What are invisible rays? - Answer✔️✔️-shortest wavelength, beyond the
visible threshold

ex: x-rays

The angstrom unit is used to measure... - Answer✔️✔️-wavelength

one hundred millionth of a centimeter

x-rays used in dentistry fall between what angstrom units - Answer✔️✔️-.5-1
angstrom unit


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What is hard radiation? - Answer✔️✔️-x-rays of shorter wavelength, used in
dentistry

What is soft radiation? - Answer✔️✔️-x-rays of longer wavelength, can't
penetrate tissues

When is EMR produced? - Answer✔️✔️-when electrons strike a metal target
in a vacuum tube

Cathode - Answer✔️✔️-negatively charged component which contains a
filament wire coil made of tungsten metal

Anode - Answer✔️✔️-Positively charged component containing a target
made of tungsten metal (aka a Wolfram target)

Focal spot - Answer✔️✔️-the small area on the target of the anode where
electrons are directed

Focusing cup - Answer✔️✔️-negatively charged metal cup directs electrons
to the target

made of molybdenum

aperture/porte - Answer✔️✔️-opening in x-ray tube for exit of photons

copper stem heat radiator - Answer✔️✔️-passes electrons that turned into
heat into oil bath to be cooled

High Voltage Circuit - Answer✔️✔️-kVp- connected to the anode and
cathode




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