How Much Radiation Can the Human Body Take? And Are Dental X-Rays Actually Safe? 

Watched business blaze for a week straight , now every other video you do throws me off. haha

Or be near a 5G tower, wake up sheeple! AMIRITE PETER!?!!!

Why didn't you explain curies?

a guy walked into a dental office and says hope you don't mind me wear this lead hat when getting x-rayed, "it's to help protect my PIECE of mind"

Congratulations on keeping going for this long what will you do after RU-vid? I only wonder because life isn’t long

This is very true. My dentist still insists on a radiation shield around a patients neck because the thyroid is a hugely important organ. He prefers to protect patients rather than take chances.

This. A full series is 18 exposures , per patient, not including localized ones. We'd see 50+ pts/day (not all xrays though), so that's a LOT of unnecessary radiation to expose yourself to. As a pt, the risk of radiation is outweighed by the benefit of...finding out how deep a cavity is etc. That's why EVERYONE not the pt should gtfo during exposure. Though I definitely have worked with some assistants that dgaf, but I ain't about that life lol

Also, it's not that thick of a wall. :-)

Given the amount of discomfort (physical, mental, financial) inflicted by dentists, they are probably always looking to keep a wall between them and their patients.

I could imagine that was probably put into place ASAP when they realized how radiation and X-rays and such work with the human body lol. I used to always be scared oh how much radiation was being focusesed onto me when I had to get my lungs checked, I was applying for work at a hospital and I tested positive for Teburculosis even tho I’ve never had symptoms (possible exposure at birth, due to being born in a poor village in Russian Manchuria about 30 miles from Vladivostok) so I had to get many X-rays and other thing to check my lung as well as manditory treatment

Compared to general radiography the technique being blasted at those little wedges of film Is what I use on an Abdomen.(which is the second highest amount I would use on anypart of the body, pelvis requiring more KVPs and mAhs.) Panorex is much lower does. But it's necessary because teeth are more dense than bone. Panorex gets lower dose because the imaging receptor is not in your mouth and you can fit more sensitive equipment than film in an envelope in that housing that spins around your head. (which Simon never got to) And he showed a panorex while talking about not-a-panorex.. traditional dental xrays.

Also panos take a significant amount of time. Films or sensors take less than 0.2 second. While the Kv and mA suggested vary by state, provence, and country. They are relatively close. but the amount is considered "acceptable" for most teens to adults. Within a day. There are options for young children that use near infrared that's harmless to a human.

Had he said that in the beginning I could have used the 16 min 40 sec to take a nap.

That’s the Simon for ya. He’s awesome. He sensationalizes things only very rarely

@@zaneyates5704 on this channel. Brain blaze.......

All I know is I keep eating these radioactive bananas and I still haven't transformed into Banana-Man. The struggle continues.

@@jamesoverholt878 my son too! We’re both massively disappointed!

@@buck45osu he has so many channels I didn’t even know about that one

Ever heard of Hisashi Ouchi?

He got a 17,000 severt dose and was kept alive by doctors for 83 days until most of him became a liquid goo and all his membranes and blood vessels couldn't hold any liquid. They revived him to many times. It was most definitely the worst torture a person's ever been through.

@@bobthompson4319 his last name was Ouchi…?

@@robertperillo8738 I have to agree with your incredulity. Citation needed.

@@empressoftheknownuniverse Tokaimura nuclear accident - Ouchi suffered serious radiation burns to most of his body, experienced severe damage to his internal organs, and had a near-zero white blood cell count. In the process, doctors kept him alive by pumping a high amount of blood and fluids into him regularly. Copy pasta from google

I gotta know.. what's the job like?? Movies make nuclear waste out to be like Batman villian toxic vats. At the same time, I'm sure it isn't entirely harmless (material depending obviously)

@@balancebjj1087 The following just scratches the surface. It doesn't cover every detail. Overall, it is very similar to other industrial/construction/demolition jobs. So they have all the same types of hazards. But with an additional layer of safety activities/bureaucracy. You are trained as a Radiation Worker Level 2. You always wear a dosimeter (about the size and weight of a few credit cards stacked to gather) so you know how much radiation you are exposed to. You ALWAYS obey the barriers - they can be just a yellow-and-magenta rope on stanchions around something or across a doorway. Never reach across. Never enter unless you know where you are going. This is part of the training. The Health Physics Technicians (HPTs) routinely survey areas to check for changes. They have maps so you know where the radiation hazards are. In low hazard areas, you may have to use a hand-and-foot counter to exit. In this case you may be in just street clothes. Step on the pad, put your hands in the slots. If it beeps 'OK' you leave. If not, call a HPTs to check you out. When the hazards increase, there is always a pre-job safety briefing covering all hazards, rad and non-rad. You review, read, and sign the Radiation Work Permit. Oh, no food, drink, or rest rooms in the radiation areas. In areas with radiation hazards, you put on protective clothing: coveralls, booties, hood. Often just cloth, some times tyvek. Masking tape is used to seal the joints, eg, tape the legs to the cloth booties. Rubber overshoes, and gloves taped to your sleeves. Then another set of gloves. Then go do work. When you leave, take them off in a specific order so you don't get contamination on you (or others). HPT surveys you for contamination and assists getting you out of the radiation zones. These extra dress-in/dress-out steps slows work down. Again, how to do this is part of the training. Higher risk areas, add a second set of clothing. Airborne radiation possible? Wear a respirator, or what might be called a gas mask. Areas with higher dose rate may require an additional dosimeter(s). The higher the risk, the more HPTs you have with you to monitor conditions. The more of this Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) you wear, the less efficient you are. So work takes longer. Add in hot weather, even less effective. Example: Was part of an engineering staff walkdown of a long shut-down reactor. Wearing one set of PPE due to radiation. For one room we wore respirators. But not for radiation. The pigeon poop was a foot thick in that one room. Sorry, no boiling vats of green-glowing goop. :)

If you only capitalize the first A making it Alara it's a plane from the MTG TCG

ALARA is more than just the medical industry, it's all industries involving radiological exposures. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has a given allotted amount of radiation dose someone can receive over the course of a year. When I checked last, which was a decade and a half ago, it was the following (this may have changed since then): 50 REM to extremities (fingers, hands, toes, feet) 8 REM whole body 2 REM torso and head Typically, those working in a radiological exposure job will wear two dosimeters on their body, a ring dosimeter on the dominant hand (as it is most likely to receive the highest dose) and a badge dosimeter worn on the chest. The health physicist will then look at the two dosimeters monthly at a minimum (sometimes more often) and keep track of the dose that the person gets over the year and then will report that information to NRC at the end of the year. Any one reaching those limits before the year is out is required to be removed from any further access to radiological sources for the remainder of the year (outside of receiving background dose rates).

They must think I am not long for this world then.

@@csdn4483 I wonder how many times a year should I be getting "contrast" injected? I was told I have to have good kidney function and have at least 3 months in between.

Or ALARP in the UK. We change achievable for the word practicable. I've no idea why

When I was a kid, my dad took me to an oldddd barber named Mr Napper. Mr Napper had been one of the soldiers that were used as human test dummies for the atomic bomb tests too. He died of cancer when I was a teen.

@@AngryChiropractor That's awesome!!

in the old days it used to have to expose photographic paper, these days they use much faster films or sensitive electronic pick up devices so the xray gun needs to send far less energy.

Apparently it's the same with radiotherapy too, the targeting is so much more accurate now, that a far smaller dose can be used and directed right at the cancer instead of the whole area.

I'm glad you asked. This is informative. Thank you.

I still get a jacked up taste every time get x-rays anywhere on my body

Kevin, that's just straight up in your head then...I spent 6 years studying nothing but radiation. You do know you get the same type of radiation just by living on earth right? Ever eaten a banana? Guess what, they're radioactive too!

Would be interesting. I'm one of the 1/3,000 people who lack an enzyme to break down anesthesia. When I had SARPE they gave me enough to put a normal person under for 2 hours, but I was out for over 9

This would be a good business blaze style video imo

absolutely

@@Noah_E my sister is a natural red head so she kind of had the opposite once, they usually ask as they tend to need more to be put to sleep, they didn’t ask and assumed it was dyed and they did the whole count down from 10 thing and she said she got to about 5 and saw the doctor look over at what she assumes was the anaesthesiologist confused. The doctor told us about it and said she got down to -7 before she was out.

Hope you get enough likes to get simon to notice lol

It is in fact your boi raid shadow legend

Ah yeah. I remember this. Awesome guy. Awesome volunteers.

Definition of heroism right there.

Liver Cirrhosis is a pretty horrible way to die tho. I watched my father die from that in June. I know its nothing compared to radiation sickness tho.

Correction: His disgusting family MADE the doctors keep him alive. The doctor ended up losing his shit on them the last time they tried to make them revive him and they reluctantly agreed to let him die.

The CT scanner would not have been “running” for that entire time. The scanner only produces radiation when making an exposure.

With how shielding works on western reactors even a bloody explosion won’t be too much of an issue for everyone else. It’s why Fukushima, as bad as it was, wasn’t Chernobyl levels of bad, despite both being a 7 on the IAEA scale, which is the worst an accident can get.

To paraphrase George Carlin, "Everyone would be aggressive and no one would be in charge... Kind of like now." 😁

20 mSv of radiation increases your lifetime chances of getting cancer by 0.1% or a 1:1000 increase. I have had some wine but I think that increases your chances of cancer by 1:300. Statistically we all have a 50% chance of getting cancer, so you are adding very little to the baseline cancer risk (UK figures)

Then it's a good thing he has 12 channels to please you.

This is the true question we need answered ☢️

one for Brain Blaze

He looks like a homeless person.... probably increases the amount of Patreon supporters tho. Poor fella, smdh.

In Japan, sure, given the Hibakusha status of bomb survivors came with a vast amount of discrimination by other Japanese.

@@owenshebbeare2999 Yes, but I would think that discrimination would be the least of my worry's considering the long and painful suffering before dying as described by Whistler.

Simon has stated in one of his previous videos that it goes in one ear and out the other. He claimed that he basically knows the information while reading the script but retrains little, if any, once filming is done. I consider what he is describing as the difference between cramming for a test in a subject versus actually studying in-depth and getting to know the subject matter.

As a radiographer. Please speak to the person doing the scan. They should be happy to talk you through it. If you're in the UK they have to display (by law) a poster showing the equivalent dose for your scan. The more modern scanners have come on really well with reducing dose.

@@shorey66I had the scan a few months ago but I appreciate the advice. I’m in the US so I don’t think that’s required here but I’m sure if I’d asked they would have talked to me about it. They do always ask me beforehand if I have questions. It definitely helped to know that during my head CT I absorbed less than the abdominal ones I’ve had in the past. It’s cool that the UK displays the posters with equivalent doses, if we did that I wouldn’t have had to research.