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Dental loupes, surgical microscopes and vision enhancement in the operatory

Ninety-nine percent of dental diagnosis is visual. You can’t diagnose what you can’t see. You can’t treat it if you can’t see it. Dental and vision experts universally agree that magnification and good lighting help you see better, provide better patient care, and produce higher quality dentistry. What kind of magnification and lighting is best?
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How Magnification and Ergonomics Matter in Dentistry

One of the major challenges in dentistry is viewing the oral cavity. Since the early days of fiber optic lights to today’s highly-refined procedure scopes, visualizing the oral cavity has come a long way. With the advancements in magnification, dentists are now more productive and confident in the treatment that is provided to patients. Additionally,
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Surgical Loupes and Ophthalmic Microsurgery

Ophthalmologists are tasked with performing microsurgery on one of the smallest organs in the human body, the eye. They perform operations with incredible detail and precision. It would be essentially impossible for ophthalmologists to do their work with such accuracy if they did not rely on the variety of magnification instruments available to them. From
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Back Pain Relief for Dentists

Many dentists experience neck and back pain while working. Since dentists often find themselves stretched forward in prolonged positions, with arms outstretched, it is easy to understand why this happens. To help with posture related body problems that are associated with incorrect working postures, dentists are encouraged to use external lighting source, dental magnification loupes
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Neck Health and Finding the Right Loupes

Finding the right dental flip-up loupes or TTL (through-the-lens) loupes is paramount to maintaining good neck health, improving working posture and being comfortable. Loupe systems can vary widely in their ability to promote a neutral head position, which is having one’s ears positioned directly over the shoulders. In order to find the right flip-up loupes
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Magnification Can Alleviate Aches and Pains, Improve Efficiency

Less than a half-century ago, the working world was hardly worried about workplace safety. In the field of dental health specifically, those who were injured because of poor working conditions were often forced to retire early. Eventually, dental clinicians started looking for ways to improve their work environment and stop the aches and pains of
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