Digital technology has several advantages over analog technology:

• Significant reduction in the number of X-rays required.
• Incorrect exposures and the resulting need to repeat X-ray images can be largely avoided through post-processing using a computer. A darkroom is no longer necessary, and a developing machine is no longer required. There is no longer any need to prepare or dispose of chemicals (environmental impact).
• Utilization of all advantages of digital image processing, such as digital enlargements of specific image areas or even density measurements of diagnostically interesting areas.

No, X-rays during pregnancy should be limited to life-threatening or acute emergencies. However, alternative examinations such as ultrasound and, in special cases, MRI are possible.

Mammography is an X-ray technique and therefore involves exposure to X-rays. Mammography is firmly integrated into guidelines and is a very safe method for detecting microcalcifications, for example, which are an indication of early-stage breast cancer. Digital mammography is all about early detection of the disease, i.e., at a stage when treatment is still very possible. However, when using digital mammography, as is standard practice at Radiologie Baden-Baden, the radiation dose is reduced to a minimum and is acceptable according to the current state of science. When weighing up the risk of overlooking breast cancer and the risk of a rather theoretical secondary tumor induction by X-rays, the current state of science clearly favors the early detection of possible breast cancer through mammography—and the possibility of a complete cure, provided the disease is detected at an early stage.