Background: Ionizing radiation (IR) at high doses is a well-known risk factor, whether low and moderate doses (defined, respectively, as 100 mGy and below and 100 to 2000 mGy for photon radiation, can also induce such detrimental effects is under debate.
Methodology: A prospective study was performed to investigate the possible positive effect of diagnostic dental cone beam computed tomography on the oral health. This study was conducted on fifty adult patients suffering from gingival inflammation. The patient clinical oral condition was examined before and after exposure to radiation, salivary PH was examined before and after performing the radiographic examination.
Results: From the current study there is no health hazard, nor positive changes related to the use of conventional diagnostic CBCT. That could be attributed to the low dose of new digital radiographic machines, and the extremely short exposure time. The change in acidity to alkalinity of seven cases could be related to change of salivary consistency after radiation. In The present study, there were no changes observed to the low dose radiation of the CBCT.
the accumulative effect of radiation to the patients could be studied in further research, as well as long term effect of digital diagnostic CBCT an oral health.