The Public Health England published the new publication in the PHE CRCE report series ‘Guidance on the Safe Use of Hand Held Dental X-ray Equipment’.
This publication proposes a safety standard for the design and construction of dental X-ray equipment that is intended to be used hand-held and provides guidance to assist all people involved with hand-held dental X-ray equipment to work with it safely and in accordance with UK radiation protection legislation.
Further guidelines on the same topic previously published: