You can now clearly show patients the prevalence of decay with the aid of VistaProof from Dürr Dental, a fluorescence camera capable of detecting caries quickly and accurately. Caries is shown even in fissures and on occluded surfaces, where to the naked eye or on X-ray photographs it may be hard or impossible to detect.

It is as fast as a mirror examination and the high performance software displays a false colour image on which active caries appears in red and healthy enamel in green. In contrast to other screening systems, it also shows caries that was not previously diagnosed so that it can be used to monitor the progression of caries conditions over a period of time (the fluorescence images can be conveniently stored with the powerful software in a patients' database). It also has a function as a patient motivation and communication tool, since it can be used to promote better oral hygiene.

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