Do you have to have dental x rays every 2 years?

can dentist force x-rays on you can he refuse to work on you if you refuse the x rays do you have to have x rays every so often by law

There is no law requiring x-rays or the interval required between x-rays. The general rule is once a year for bitewing x-rays (these are cavity detection x-rays) and every five years for a panorex (a large, full mouth x-ray.)

These x-rays are required in order for the dentist to properly diagnose conditions and treatment. There are conditions such as abscessing and inter-proximal decay (cavities between teeth) That can not be seen without x-ray.

You most certainly can decline x-rays, it is your option. Most dentists will ask you to sign a form stating that you have declined. This ensures that they are not responsible for undiagnosed conditions because of the lack of x-rays.

Some dentists may refuse to treat a patient without x-rays simply because they cannot be sure that the proper treatment has been diagnosed, it is up to that particular dentist.

It is best to have the x-rays taken at least once a year to ensure optimum health.

There is no law saying how often or at all that you need to have an x-ray, however for a dentist to do good safe quality work on your teeth x-rays are important..If you have some twisted nerves or something, and they hit one doing a simple procedure, and it causes damage, you can sue, and it could have been avoided if they had the x-ray.

You do not have to have x-rays a lot of people are not for it. but they are great because a dentist can see so may things such as abcesses, infections, cavities that are in between teeth, extra teeth exc. It is not required by law a lot of our patients parents say no to rays, but its always up to you.

X-rays cause cancer, and sometimes horrible, painful death. (But because it occurs many years after the x-rays, you can't prove the dental x-rays caused it.) So, does anyone know the name of ANY dentist(s) who do not require x-rays? The reason you do not know of any such dentist, is that there is definitely a conspiracy to require unnecessary, routine x-rays in dentistry. As is to be expected, the source and reasons for this conspiracy are difficult to determine, and prove. Simplistically, it is simply the tyranny of the medical-malpractice insurance companies that require x-rays, (and this is equivalent to being "required by law", because it means that there is not even one dentist who works without x-rays). A grander-scale conspiracy would be that law-enforcement, (perhaps on the Fed. gov. level), has clandestinely put pressure on the insurance companies to require "constant, routine dental x-rays", so that they can identify dead bodies. This makes law-enforcement folks look more "efficient and capable", and since they don't like looking impotent, they are more than happy to (secretly) require that a certain percent of us are given cancer by dentists' x-rays.
In any case, yes, a dentist can, (and will), refuse to work on you without x-rays, (AND refuse to accept any legal "release from liability" you might sign and offer him), with the "plausibly deniable" reason that he would be "outside acceptable dental care limits", if he did not use x-rays. It's a lie, but it's a very well-established, (legalized) lie.