• California Radiation Challenge
• California Radiation Safety Certification
• Radiography Troubleshooting

California Radiation Challenge

Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm        Room: RS-110
Instructor: Greenfield

If you have significant experience taking full-mouth dental x-rays, but do not have a California Radiation Safety License, you may be able to challenge the required course with this approved mechanism. Study materials are sent to you in advance for the written examination. You will be required to pass a written examination and take FMXR's and bite-wings on dexters, plus two patient surveys in class. Additional x-rays will be taken in your facility. No instruction is given and if you can’t pass the challenge, there will be no refund or credit toward our regular Radiation Safety course. Note that this class adheres to clinical wear requirements.

Instrument list sent upon enrollment.

Fee: $600        No CE Units (Click here to apply.)

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California Radiation Safety Certification

Time: Friday 1:30 pm - 8:30 pm
          Saturday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
          Sunday 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Instructor: Standley/Campbell/Fleming/Blee

This course has been designed to meet the standards set forth by the California Dental Board for the operation of dental radiographic equipment in California. The course includes both didactic and clinical application of x-ray safety, film exposure, processing and evaluation. Each participant much provide their own x-ray film and four patients. (Patients are required after participants have successfully learned the procedures on x-ray Dexter manikin.) XCP kits are sold at cost in the class for $100. The first patient is needed the first Sunday.

Participants must provide 4 patients, 1 box of Kodak Insight or E speed #2 polypack x-ray film, a complete set of Rinn XCP film holders.

Fee: $800        45 CE Units - Category 1  (Click here to apply.)

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Radiography Troubleshooting

Time: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm      Room: RS-110
Instructor: Dunne

This is an x-ray course for those who already know how to take radiographs, but may be having difficulty with elongation, closed contacts, cone cuts or other problems. Participants should bring a box of x-ray film. This is not a beginning course. See California Radiation Safety Challenge for beginning class.

Fee: $225        7 CE Units - Category 1   (Click here to apply.)

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