{"id":46,"date":"2026-10-06T04:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T04:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/why-we-take-x-rays-and-how-often\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T15:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T15:18:37","slug":"why-we-take-x-rays-and-how-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/why-we-take-x-rays-and-how-often\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we take X-rays, and how often"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some decay starts between the teeth or under old fillings, where no mirror can see it. Small bitewing X-rays show those places, and the bone that holds the teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We take them every one to two years for most adults, more often if you have a lot of decay, and only when the result will change what we do. The dose is very small.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can see your X-rays on the screen in the surgery, and we are happy to send copies to another dentist if you move.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What the dentist sees on an X-ray that cannot be seen in the mouth (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-treatments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-dentist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}