Illuminate and view teeth in 3D. Go from opaque to translucent and revealing cracks, craze lines, fissures and more, instantly!
The fiber optic light guide is a high quality image grade glass light guide designed to focus the LED light at the output. The light guide can be wiped with disinfectant, cold sterilized, autoclaved, or heat sterilized. It is not recommended they be chemclaved.
Simply place the fiber optic probe adjacent to the oral structure under examination and the passage of the light through the tissue is proportional to the translucency of each material. Caries, calculus, cracks and the orifice of root canals do not transmit as much light as healthy enamel or dentin and appears darker.
Dental Trans-illuminator features:
- Autoclavable light guide, available in 2mm and 3mm
- High output L.E.D
- Battery Operated
- Portable and easy to use
- Protective Sleeves available
Microlux Transilluminator
Available with 2 & 3mm glass light guides which allows doctors to better visualize caries on anterior and posterior teeth.
Posterior Caries
To visualize posterior proximal decay, place the probe on the cervical area of the tooth. Caries appear as a dark shadow on the occlusal surface.
Anterior Caries
Anterior caries can be visuallized by placing the probe on the labio-cervical region of the tooth and examine from the lingual.
Root Fracture
Root fractures can often be detected by using the Endo Fiber tip. Place it either bucally or lingually in the gingival sulcus. A fracture line will apprear dark via transillumination from the outside to the inside of the canal.
Root Canal Orifice
To help locate root canal orifice, place the light source on the buccal or lingual cervical region of the tooth.
Periodontial Disease
To help detect the depth of the pockets and gingival recession, use the lighted Perio Probe and insert the tip in the gingival sulcus. The depth indications are 3, 5, and 7mm.
Product Details:
- Autoclavable light guide, available in 2mm and 3mm
- High output LED light
- Portable and easy to use
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Price:
$220.00
The use of fiber-optic illumination in general dental practice.
The diagnosis of approximal carious lesions, in the absence of cavitation, is often difficult and bitewing radiographs are frequently used to supplement the visual, clinical examination. Recommendations regarding the prescription and timing of bitewing radiography have been made recently1 but there is still considerable variation in their use between individual dentists and different regions of the country2. Radiographs can enhance the detection of approximal lesions3,4 but there is a need to keep exposure to radiation as low as possible.
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BRITISH DENTAL JOURNAL,
VOLUME 191, NO. 3, AUGUST 11 2001
G. M. Davies,1 H. V. Worthington,2 J. E. Clarkson,4
P. Thomas,5 R. M. Davies3
Other Applications:
Oral Cancer Screenings
For Oral Cancer screening, have the patient rinse with 1% acetic acid and place the Microlux DL tip in mouth. Any acetowhite or leukoplakic lesions become more visible.