Going to our first dental trip on Tuesday since getting the pod in June.
Per the manual, we need to place the pod and PDM outside the treatment area when having Xrays due to the strong radiation or magnetic field.
How has anyone else handled this ?
Do you remove the pod when you get to the dental office and then reapply a new one before you leave with a catchup blous?
Since the xrays are of the head and our dentist has you wear that metal filled apron, should we try to leave it on and see if it fails ?
The pod will be fine w/ dental x-rays. Just make sure you have the pod covered w/ the lead shielding. The radiation dosage is so small and is not directed at the pod, so no worries.
If you were having other x-rays (or a CT) and the pod would be directly in the primary beam then you’d need to remove it and put on a new pod. If you were having an MRI you’d need to remove it as well, as the metal w/in the pod would not be permitted w/in the room w/ the magnet.
But otherwise you should be fine. Hope the dental appointment goes well! 
This is a very timely discussion. I just had a dental appointment including a set of x-rays yesterday morning. I wore the pod on my lower back. They placed the lead apron over me and all was well!! No worries.
I’ve been to at least 10 of these xrays since I started on the POD back in '05, and I never had any trouble. I’ve also had many MRI’s (for those I would remove the pod altogether, and just replace with a new one when we were finished…just like Bradford suggests). So, I wouldnt worry about it, making sure the pod is covered by the apron. good luck, and PEACE.
I have had dental xrays with my pod on without any problems. I didn’t even think about it, and my PDM was in the room with me. It still works (knock on wood). I guess I didn’t even think of it because I have put the PDM through the xray machines at the airport and walked through the xray machines wearing a pod.
I am not sure about this. Lead shielding is heavy…how do you cover the pod with it. I work in Nuclear Engg. Lead is so heavy that I can barely walk 10 ft with a brick sized lead.
The lead shielding is just a flexible apron that lays over the patient. The lead is just a very thin layer w/in the fabric…It’s “heavy” but it’s not 50 lbs or anything 
It’s not like a traditional lead brick like you mentioned. Here is an image of a typical 2 piece suit used by radiographers working in a cath lab or fluoroscopic unit, for example. The shielding used in dentists’ offices is the same stuff just cut differently (you don’t need the full-wrap 2 piece suit when you’re laying in the chair
b/c x-rays are ionizing radiation, our cardinal rule within radiography is “time, distance, and shielding”. That is, you should decrease your time exposure, increase your distance, and use the proper amount of shielding when acquiring images. So in the context of dental x-rays, most of the machines have an auto-exposure control that will keep the time as low as possible and proper shielding can be used to lay over the patient to prevent excess scatter radiation from hitting the patient.
I just had xrays done on my right hip (total hip replacement). I mentioned I had the pod on my arm, they effectively said, that’s nice dear, and did the xrays. No problems afterward with the pod.
I just had an MRI and had to divest myself of the CGM and the Pod. It was change day for the sensor so I just did it earlier and took the stuff off just before I went in for the MRI. The pod had to be sacrificed.
If you leave this stuff on when doing the MRI or CT scan can wipe your programming.
Good luck with the dentist. Hope the news is all good.
I have had a dental X-ray while wearing an OmniPod – it took a licking and still kept ticking.
