Question

Nancy is a new dental assistant in your office, and she just finished manually processing some dental radiographs. When you look at the films, you notice that they are very light. You exposed the films, so you are certain that the exposure factors were correct. What could have gone wrong?

Answer 1

Nancy put them in developer for a short time, that is to say that the image was very clear and even though I later washed them and ran them through the fixing solution they no longer had a solution

Step-by-step explanation:

The development of dental radiographs has three stages:

The first is to place the radiograph in developer, the second to wash it in water and the third to fix the image and define it with fixative.

The developer is in charge of giving the contrast to the radiographic image and the radiopaque-radiolucent colors, if the radiographic plate lasts less time or the developer is altered due to misuse / maintenance, it will not look correctly and will have a dim image appearance.