X-Rays Made Easy

    X-rays are important because they allow medical practitioners to investigate the cause of symptoms as well as help confirm the presence or absence of a disease or injury. The diagnosis of a condition usually requires more than the result of a single examination process. An X-ray should supplement (and not replace) the practitioner's examination and your own medical record.

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The benefits of X-rays (in comparison to other types of imaging) include that they:

• are fast: X-ray results are often available the same day, or even within the hour.

• are painless and non-invasive

• don’t require any special preparation (except when contrast media is used)

• require little to no recovery time: Radioactivity for most types of x-rays end when the procedure ends or a few moments afterwards.