Film Content Flashcards
Size 1 film used for
Anterior PA’s
Size 0 film used for
Pedo
Age 4-7
Size 3 film has the same width as size 2 but it is
Longer
Size 4 film used for
Occlusal films
- used to see trauma or tooth buds
- steep vertical angle
Parts of an intraoral film (4)
Protective layer
Film emulsion
Adhesive layer
Film base
Emulsion contains
Gelatin and silver halide crystals
Bigger Silver halide crystals do what to the film speed?
Smaller crystals do what?
Faster speed film
Slow speed film
*we want fastest for patient
The emulsion does what?
Is the image, where the image goes
Latent image is also know as a ______ image
An invisible image
On a latent image not all of the radiation will hit the
Emulsion
An example of latent image would be
Invisible finger print
3 film types
Intraoral
Extraoral
Duplicating
Intraoral is a __ sided emulsion
2
Extraoral is a ____ film
Screen
Duplicating film is a __ sided emulsion
1