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Sharing an OPG proves cost effective
Dentist Finds Camera Answer
FLEXISCOPE Multi Media Centre
A NSW dentist says she now has a state-of-the-art digital intra-oral camera that meets her professional needs and patient demands.
Dentist Dr Gizelle Kaunitz, who has a practice in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne, knew she was going to encounter more challenges from patients if she didnât install some type of intra-oral digital camera soon. Patients were frequently asking why she didnât have a computerised digital imaging system.
In fact, Dr Kaunitz had been looking for several years to buy an intra-oral digital camera but the equipment available was too bulky, obtrusive and the resolution was poor. However, she then discovered the INLINE Systems FLEXISCOPE Multimedia system and is now using the camera on over 70% of her patients.
ãI went into the market considering all the intra-oral camera alternatives,ä Dr Kaunitz said. ãI was approached by many digital imaging companies and I told them what I wanted and whyä.
ãI was starting to experience unexpected disadvantages because patients were telling me of other dentists who were using digital imaging and were asking where my equipment was. Of course, I had been looking for quite some time before we discovered the Multimedia Centre.ä
Dr Kaunitz believes firmly that the Multimedia Centre has improved patient acceptance of treatment since she started using the camera in April this year. The system is ideal for surgeries with space constraints and can be mounted on any chair, irrespective of make, model or age. The Flat Screen TFT monitor simply swings into position when required and can be used to display several forms of media including intra-oral images from the built in camera, PC images with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels along with two separate external video or DVD sources such as dental hygiene presentations and / or childrenâs entertainment videos.
ãFor dentists, there are great advantages to this type of system,ä she said. ãUsing a high resolution Intra-Oral camera, which features its own light source, you narrate a real time tour of the mouth, pointing out details about the tissue, identifying tooth decay or minute cracks in the enamel, while your patient watches on a high resolution monitor.ä
The FLEXISCOPE Multimedia system uses digital 10-bit camera technology with a range of 1.1 billion colours and picture resolution of 600,000 pixels. Image, colour and contrast can be adjusted using an on-screen menu through a hygienic membrane keyboard. The integrated intra-oral camera has a wide variety of lenses for different viewing angles and applications including specialised fibre optic Îendodonticâ probes with diameters of 1.5mm, 0.65mm & 0.34mm. These probes can be used to more easily identify such problems as secondary canals, remnants of pulp tissue, root canal wall shoulders, damaged apical foramen, dentine chips, etc. Visual inspection of the canal morphology inside the root canal to the apical foramen is now made simple.
The system also easily integrates with Dr Kaunitzâs computer network. She has the Multimedia Centre connected to a Pentium II PC with a 6.4Gb hard disk using ImageFX Dental software to archive all patient images. The system operates on a Windows 98 platform and is networked with a notebook at reception for data entry purposes. All intra-oral images are compressed regularly and backed up on a JAZ drive. MYOB is the front office system, and hard copies of intra & extra oral images are printed on an Epson Stylus 900 colour inkjet printer for the patient to take with them.
There is much more to buying a digital intra-oral camera then just the cost factor, according to Dr Kaunitz. She says: ãThis intra-oral camera will help add credibility to my practice. When patients see that you have incorporated the latest technological advances, they are impressed with the state-of-the-art nature of your practice.ä
1.1 Billion Colors.
The new FLEXISCOPE Multivision.
Virtually no other field has attracted as much attention or gained as much importance over the last few years as Intra-Oral camera technology. But whilst most suppliers essentially offer cameras for communication and marketing purposes, the FLEXISCOPE Multivision System by INLINE Systems is a modular endoscopic camera designed for every conceivable oral use.
The FLEXISCOPE Multivision presented for the first time at the IDS in Germany features the latest digital 10-bit camera technology for an enormous range of colors - 1.1 billion! - at a visible picture resolution of 600,000 pixels. For the first time, the operator can easily and individually adjust all image, color and contrast values using an ãon-screen methodä and a hygienic membrane keyboard.
A range of interchangeable lenses, special probes and applicators ensure optimum quality images and colors for a whole variety of uses. For Intra-Oral images, a variety of 90° lenses with different viewing angles are available. The Extra-Oral 0° lens is designed to capture brilliant full face, mouth, overview and macro images. Operating modes for 90° and 0° lenses can be selected to ensure perfect images, whatever probe you use. The light intensity can also be dimmed steplessly and individually.
For brilliant endoscopic insights into open cavities or dental pulp, the FLEXISCOPE Multivision System can be equipped with a Microdiagnostic probe with a fiber diameter of only 1.5 mm, which can also be used for visual inspection of e.g. retentions, border gaps, implant-related bone openings or caries in all areas of the mouth and teeth which are difficult to approach.
Insertable, flexible rootscope probes with diameters of only 0.34 mm or 0.65 mm allow the dentist to make a visual inspection of the canal morphology inside the root-canal, e.g. to prevent the formation of shoulders or to search for dentin chips.
A microscope probe is available for diagnosing aphthae, alterations of the gingiva and the mucous membrane and for microscopic images of dental enamel, fillings, carious spots and similar. Light probes for Fibreoptic radioscopy of teeth for diagnostic purposes, adapters for connecting prophylaxis and surgical microscopes and other endoscopic applications ensure suitability for a full range of uses.
FLEXISCOPE Multivision systems can be used in multiple locations throughout the practice. The modular design, outstanding camera resolution and color replication make these modules ideal for connecting up to all modern practice management networks and computing systems.
"Modular" or Light
The new FLEXISCOPE MMC Systems for chair integration
Dentist's treatment chairs are an investment for 'half your professional life', whereas modern multimedia technology keeps progressing comparatively fast. With this in mind INLINE Systems now presents two new chair side FLEXISCOPE Multimedia Centers.
Regardless of type of chair, manufacturer or model year, with the FLEXISCOPE MMC Systems every treatment unit can be turned into a modern multimedia working place. The high connectivity and integration possibilities meet all wishes for multimedia or communication in a dental practice.
The integrated multi-standard decoder processes all kinds of video and computer signals. Integrated stereo loudspeakers can be used for sound or music sources. Whether as an Intra-Oral camera or for digital X-Ray, image processing, accounting, patient information or dental imaging, all applications are reproduced directly at the ãscene of the actionä to be viewed and listened to by patient, doctor and assistant.
The successful multimedia center is now available in two versions, modular or ãlightä. As the modular version, all FLEXISCOPE module camera systems can be used in multiple surgeries with the FLEXISCOPE MMC System.
FLEXISCOPE MMC Light in contrast does not include an integrated camera system or a module cradle. It therefore offers plenty of opportunities to be used for all kinds of media and is the ideal solution for all users already working with an Intra-Oral camera.
For the Digital Practice.
FLEXI VISION, the new versatile imaging program.
A complete software package for all imaging systems in the dental practice - FLEXI VISION - the brand new image processing software from INLINE Systems.
Capture dental images professionally and store them for every patient via a simple mouse click? Simulate treatment objectives, convey imaging data via the Internet to the laboratory or exchange data with other software programs? - No problem for the Windows based software by INLINE Systems, and even more.
FLEXI VISION offers everything todayâs dentists might expect from up-to-date image processing programs. The basic system consists of a compatible, multi-location archiving program including basic imaging functions. For professional Îdental-imagingâ applications add FLEXI IMAGE, an extraordinary image processing module. Interesting cases are accessible in the additional FLEXI VISION LIBRARY, which serves as patient information system or also as the basis for dental-imaging simulations.
FLEXI VISION, together with the required hardware and the matching Intra-Oral FLEXISCOPE camera systems make up the ideal, easy-to-use system for progressive, computer-oriented users.
"My first Digital Camera!"
The First FLEXISCOPE Multivision with a direct digital PC bus.
Contrary to most other suppliers, the entire range of FLEXISCOPE cameras uses the latest digital technology.
In the computer world where a standard digital interface is not yet available, digital camera signals are converted into standardized, compatible FBAS and S-video signals by an analog converter. At the IDS, with the motto "Visions for the dental world of tomorrow - My first Digital Camera" the FLEXISCOPE cameras were presented for a product study with a direct digital PC bus.
Traditional camera systems produce FBAS and S-video signals, which have to be converted into digital signals inside the PC by processing them with a so-called Frame grabber or digital cards.
FLEXISCOPE Multivision Digibus is a fully digital Intra-Oral camera with a direct digital interface to the PC. As a result of the latest technology, the camera signals are transferred in digital format at a data rate of 200 megabyte and 30 images per second in the PC.
If this interface was already a PC standard then it would make the compatibility between numerous devices possible. As a consequence the digital connection of a complete system would be made possible with just one cable.
According to the manufacturer, all FLEXISCOPE systems will be additionally equipped with the appropriate digital interface as soon as a world standard is defined.
INLINE Systems - The Endoscope Company.
Tailor-made solutions for dental practices.
Visual Intra-Oral camera technology is hugely successful in both Europe and Australia. The benefits at all levels are obvious. Whether for diagnostic or endoscopic purposes, or for communication, motivation and marketing tasks, a growing trend towards working visually is now making itself felt clearly in virtually all areas of dental operations.
Compact, flexible, versatile, cleverly designed, light, easy to set up units built to the highest quality standards: these are the advantages of digital FLEXISCOPE systems in a nutshell. Appliances supplied by INLINE Systems provide professional images that meet both the most stringent objective and subjective quality criteria in terms of resolution, focus and contrast.
As an endoscope specialist, INLINE Systems has years of experience in the fields of minimal-invasive endoscopy, fiberoptics, imaging techniques and electronic image processing. INLINE Systems has set itself the objective of developing market and user-oriented solutions for dental practices.
The result: cleverly designed, tailor-made products such as the Dental Chair integration solution FLEXISCOPE MMC. In short, outstanding products that have become market leaders.
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