Category: Labs and X-rays
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Understanding Children’s Dental X-Rays: An Are They Necessary Guide
This topic is so important it desrves a second blog. Every year, like clockwork, millions of American children get herded into a small lead-lined room, handed a bite tab that tastes like a pool noodle, and told to “hold very still” while a machine zaps their developing skulls — not because anyone examined them and…
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The Truth Behind Newborn Blood Type Testing: What Parents Should Know
Here’s Why We Don’t Care (Usually) Somewhere between “what’s her Apgar score” and “can I get extra pudding cups,” a lot of new parents ask the nursing staff a very reasonable-sounding question: “So what’s the baby’s blood type?” And somewhere in the hospital, a nurse smiles politely, says “we don’t routinely test for that anymore,”…
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Pediatric X rays, Your Dentist’s Real Priority? Their Wallet
As a pediatrician, I am increasingly concerned by how often dental X-rays are presented to families as routine rather than selective. Let me be clear: that is not what current guidelines recommend. The American Dental Association (ADA), along with the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, does not support taking dental X-rays on a fixed, automatic…