X...is for

Following on again with Toni's A-Z "a...is for" meme, this week's letter is X

Only two letters left after this. I thought I'd never see the end...........

X......is for........x-rays!

Kinda obvious, but I didn't want to bother researching some obscure word that no one has ever heard of, although I did think about it.

X-rays are a handy way of seeing what's happening inside your skin, under all that muscle.

All the bits that hold us together. Without these bones, we'd be slithering along the floor like blobs of.....well, blobs of something.

Hospitals use x-rays to determine if a bone is broken and how badly, whether it will knit back together with just being pushed into position and held steady while it knits, or if surgical intervention such as metal pins etc are needed.

Dentists will use x-rays to find cavities or decay that can't be seen with a regular mouth exam, they see how many fillings you have, how many root canal fillings, whether or not the teeth under the fillings are sound or beginning to decay.

x-rays also allow a dentist to see the exact position of a crooked tooth to determine whether or not it can be straightened by braces.  Perhaps it needs to be removed instead.

x-rays show us the positions of bones when we make different moves.

whether we are just walking....

....walking the dog, (vets use x-rays too).....

....or dancing.

x-ray type images are popular at Halloween parties too.

They even come in handy for writers, wondering how their careers are going.
Do they have many books in them waiting to be written?

or just one great novel. 

Thank you google for these images.