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a12 Dental Tribune U.S. Edition | September 2014 Industry News Powerfully easy By DrQuickLook Staff DrQuickLook™ SD Basic and SD Plus intraoral cameras deliver powerful fea- tures that can lift your practice to the next level. Showing crisp, clear images delivered on a screen that your patients hold in their own hands is the best way to convince patients to follow your recom- mendations for treatment. Distoration-free imaging, adjustable lighting system These devices are feature-rich to deliver the utmost in quality images, according to the company. The camera lens is cov- ered by optical glass for distortion-free imaging. Six powerful LEDs highlight the most minute details for your patient to see. The lighting system is adjustable to create the lighting balance needed for a variety of situations. Turn off the LEDs to take an image of a traditional radiograph on a viewbox to send to an insurance company or to add to your digital patient records. Images can be magnified for im- mediate viewing of defective margins and fracture lines. One touch of a button on the wand saves the image to a stan- dard SD card. Highly portable Images can be quickly reviewed from the SD card to show your patient all the im- ages in sequence. Need to magnify that fracture line? Simply move the image with your finger if needed and press the magnify button. Interested in showing an image to a parent or caretaker in the waiting room? That’s not a problem with DrQuickLook intraoral cameras: Take the viewer in hand and see how portable it is. Try that with a traditional intraoral cam- era. Care to show patients im- ages of actual cases you have completed? Download images to a standard SD card, insert the card into the viewer and present a slide- show of real-life treatment. Show old broken fillings transforming into beauti- ful new restorations and crowns. Reality at its best. Draw on the screen to explain treatment plans The DrQuickLook SD Plus model has a draw feature that the company says will amaze your patients. During image re- view, simply circle a critical part of the image with your finger or the drawing pen. Save and send this new image to the insurance company to highlight, for example, a fracture line that calls for a crown on the tooth. The FaceCam feature in the SD Plus model can create a quick portrait image to enable immediate patient recognition at your reception desk or to send as an additional aid for your dental laboratory. Optional patient education can make your practice cutting edge. That’s why another feature enables patients to see any of 31 videos to fully understand pro- cedures. You can provide your own narra- tive with the matching slideshow series. Saving images to the patient file in a practice management system is a breeze using the standard SD card, according to the company. If you want to retain any image, simply eject the SD card and, us- ing the supplied adapter, import the jpeg images into the patient’s file. Save when you want and discard images if they are not needed. This works with both Win- dows- and Mac-based systems. No formal training needed DrQuickLook SD Basic and SD Plus in- traoral cameras are so easy to use, the company says that formal training is not needed. Simply have any staff member take the unit home for the weekend and practice until he or she feels comfortable with all of the features. The touch screen creates an intuitive interface for of all the available features. According to the company, working with DrQuickLook SD Basic and SD Plus intraoral cameras is revolutionary. Ev- erything needed to get things started is included the first day you open the box. Think about how DrQuickLook SD Basic and SD Plus intraoral cameras can trans- form your practice into an efficient of- fice where you and your staff can deliver the kind of quality care you’ve dreamed about. Don’t let another day go by won- dering whether dental imaging and pa- tient education can help make your of- fice the kind of practice where you can’t wait to get to work each day. With the company’s “30-Day Do Your Own Demo” you can discover the success that practices all over the country have been achieving with the DrQuickLook SD Basic and SD Plus intraoral cameras. Crisp, clear intraoral images delivered on a screen your patients hold in their hands Clearly seeing is believing: an effective way to convince patients to follow your recom- mendations for treatment. Photo/ Provided by DrQuickLook AGD, OralID partner to give oral cancer screenings During the Academy of General Den- tistry (AGD) 2014 Annual Meeting & Ex- hibits in Detroit, the AGD Foundation hosted oral cancer screenings in an ef- fort to increase early detection and pub- lic awareness of the disease. Twenty-two dentists conducted thorough head and neck exams for 136 patients, utilizing the proven fluorescence technology of OralID’s oral cancer screening device and setting a high standard for oral cancer ex- aminations. “Oral cancer is the sixth most common cancer, accounting for nearly 5 percent of all cases,” says AGD spokesperson Vincent Mayher, DMD, MAGD. “More than 43,000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year, resulting in more than 8,000 deaths — that’s more than one person every hour.” Oral cancer is particularly dangerous because it can go unnoticed in its preliminary stages. In many cases, however, dentists can detect the disease early, which makes the den- tal community the first line of defense against oral cancer. Adjunctive devices, such as OralID, manufactured by Forward Science Tech- nologies, make it possible to detect abnor- mal lesions at their earliest stages, which may increase survival rates. “We designed OralID with commu- nity outreach programs in mind,” said CEO Robert J. Whitman. “We understand that some of the highest-risk patients are ones who cannot make it to the dental office. Thus, we designed a device that is easy to use and portable, without any re- strictions or consumables; this allows for a large number of people to be screened in a short period of time. We also added a camera filter to put on any smartphone or tablet, so dentists can take pictures of any lesions they find. It’s rewarding to be able to give back to the community in such a unique way.” Forward Science Technologies supplied the AGD Foundation with 10 OralID de- vices for the screening event, enabling the volunteers to use the latest technology on meeting attendees and members of the public. Whitman personally oversaw the event, along with Mayher and AGD Foundation Manager Marilyn Mays. “It was great to see the AGD members rally together for a great cause,” Mays says. Forward Science Technologies Forward Science Technologies is a private- ly held medical device company based in Houston. OralID was designed with com- munity outreach programs in mind. With the launch of CytID, Forward Science Technologies becomes the first company in the United States to provide an oral health protocol, referred to by the acro- nym F.A.C.T. In addition to being the only FDA-cleared oral cancer screening device with no per-patient costs, OralID carries a two-year warranty. (Source: Forward Science Technologies)