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Re: dental x-rays

I apologize for some confusion. But:

brian whatcott wrote:

Average U.S. citizen living in average location [gets]
3.600 mSv annual dose.

In my opinion 3.6 mSv is too high. True or false? If false
where is my error?

1) I remember ~180 mrem per year (from natural sources).
2) 3.6 mSv translates to 360 mrem. This is twice as much.

Is it possible that another 180 comes from medical uses,
especially when therapeutic machines are also counted in
the calculation of the average.
Ludwik Kowalski