CLEVELAND, Ohio — The next time you visit the dentist, you may not have to put on that heavy, uncomfortable lead apron before having X-rays taken. The use of lead abdominal aprons, or thyroid collars, ...

The heavy lead apron dentists drape over you during dental X-rays may soon be a thing of the past. On Thursday, the American Dental Association (ADA) announced that its member dentists can dispense ...

Those heavy lead aprons may be on their way out at the dentist office, depending on where you live. The nation’s largest dental association said Thursday it will no longer recommend the use of lead ...

Michigan dentists are dropping the use of lead aprons during x-rays of patient's mouths Recommendations from the American Dental Association point to better technology that uses less radiation as the ...

NEW HAVEN — Even the doctors see it as “monumental shift.” Those heavy lead aprons we’ve always worn during an X-ray are being phased out at some hospitals in the state and experts say it’s for health ...

Lead aprons and other lead shields provide “no additional benefit to the patient except for some psychological comfort,” said Mahadevappa Mahesh, a professor of radiology and cardiology at Johns ...

Those heavy lead aprons may be on their way out at the dentist office, depending on where you live. The nation's largest dental association said Thursday it will no longer recommend the use of lead ...

CHICAGO — Patients have come to expect a technician to drape their torsos with a heavy lead apron when they get an X-ray, but new thinking among radiologists and medical physicists may be upending the ...