A Review of Doses for Dental Imaging in 2010–2020 and Development of a Web Dose Calculator

Table 6

Minimum, mean, and maximum values of effective and organ (bone marrow, brain, salivary gland, and thyroid) doses from cone-beam computed tomography procedures by age group (children and adults) reported in the selected publications.

Age group		Effective dose (μSv)	Organ dose (μGy)
			Bone marrow	Brain	Salivary gland	Thyroid
Children (n = 22)	Mean	143.9	372.2	600.7	2393.3	759.7
	Min	17.1	15.2	14.4	336.3	38.6
	Max	392.2	1478.0	4324.0	4352.0	2908.0
Adults (n = 54)	Mean	111.8	207.0	419.1	2309.7	832.1
	Min	19.0	6.9	2.8	32.0	8.4
	Max	368.0	1034.0	4653.0	7775.0	8727.0