Our school just received two of these portable hand-held x-ray units:http://www.aseptico.com/aru-06.html

I saw it for the first time today and it's really cool. My mind was racing with all of the sweet applications for it, not to mention juicing up your buddies when they aren't looking. Nothing like friends that glow.

Has anybody else heard anything about these things? Apparently they were FDA approved a month or two ago.

I haven't heard anything about them. I'm thinking beam alignment could be a real problem with those if there's nothing to stabilize them. Any info?

Should be great if used with the XCP film holder system

Should be great if used with the XCP film holder system

XCP is good for learning but a waste of time after that.

I just got a flyer last weekend at a CE course for GP implantology offered by the local AGD. Ashtel Dental is an authorized dealer selling it less, for $6,500, but it may not have the travel case.

It looks interesting and it would be great for mobile dentistry, but even though it's FDA approved, I wouldn't want to be first first in line to use it. I'd wait 5 years or more.

Our school just received two of these portable hand-held x-ray units:http://www.aseptico.com/aru-06.html

I saw it for the first time today and it's really cool. My mind was racing with all of the sweet applications for it, not to mention juicing up your buddies when they aren't looking. Nothing like friends that glow.

Has anybody else heard anything about these things? Apparently they were FDA approved a month or two ago.

After 3 hours of Radiology, I'm not sure if I'd want a hand-held x-ray no matter how portable it might be.

FDA is a joke, by the way.

XCP is good for learning but a waste of time after that.

I'd have to disagree. At one of my jobs I take multiple FMS all day and the XCP makes my life so much easier. No question of where to position the cone, no doubts from the patient of where to bite. And the developed radiographs come out nicely arranged, look uniform, and have no cone cuts.

When I was first learning, I liked the Snap-A-Rays better, because of the hastle of assembling and manipulating the rings. However, after a period of adjustment I now prefer the Rinn XCP for it's paralleling accuracy, fewer retakes, and easy angulation.

We just had a guest lecture who is local dentist here in Buffalo but does forensics for the government. He was showing slides of IDing bodies after the WTC and New Orleans and they were using portable machines. They looked like a portable drill, even had a rechargeable battery.