Dental digital radiography holds more benefits today than using a traditional X-ray based imaging system. If given the opportunity patients should always choose this option over the traditional system for a few reasons.
For starters, dental digital radiography is much faster than traditional methods with almost immediate images appearing, unlike X-rays which involve a film that must develop.
Dental digital radiography also has much lower levels of radiation emissions and while X-ray based systems are very low and safe less is always better.
Dental digital radiography also has the obvious advantage of being digital and can be transferred from the machine with something as simple as a USB cable (inexpensive, common compute cable.) This means immediate feedback on the area of interest and because it is digital it can be emailed and stored in a more secure area.
