title: Everything you wanted to know about radiographic duplication.
abstract: If dental radiographs are not duplicated correctly, the resulting duplicates will be of inferior quality. This article discusses the characteristics of a duplicating film, the principle of radiographic duplication, a description of dental duplicators, the selection of optimum duplicating time, a technique of duplicating radiographs, an alternate technique of duplicating radiographs, errors in duplication and their correction, and the maintenance of duplicators.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Diagnosis, Medicine, and Radiology, LSU School of Dentistry, New Orleans 70119-2799, USA.
authors.forename: K H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Thunthy
mesh_terms: D003308:Copying Processes; D006801:Humans; D011861:Radiography, Dental; D013679:Technology, Radiologic; D014962:X-Ray Film