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speakers6 Pacific Dental Conference — March 5, 2015 3-D  from page 4 AD  In recognition of this year’s 100th anniversary of the Royal Canadian Dental Corps (RCDC), the 2015 Pacific Dental Conference includes two pres- entations by military dental personnel. Both topics should be of interest to a diverse civilian audience of dental professionals. Lt. Col. Genevieve Bussière will speak on “Mil- itary Forensic Identification Operations,” and Maj. Sandeep Dhesi will speak on “Operational Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma Care.” Additionally, the RCDC will have a booth (No. 1351) in the Exhibit Hall, where visitors can view a multimedia presentation highlighting various aspects of the RCDC’s 100 years of service. Canada’smilitarydentalserviceshaveservedin both world wars and peace-keeping, humanitarian and forensic operations while looking after the oral health needs of all of Canada’s troops. Royal Canadian Dental Corps celebrates centennial RCDC represented at PDC with educational sessions, Exhibit Hall booth time consuming. Each 3-D slide takes on average of 10 minutes to create in the “dark-room” digital processing and rendering. I actually spend much of the winter holidays preparing the slides. Will you be using the same projection system as you used at PDC last year? The system should be the same. We choose to use movie-theatre grade equipment, which means we essen- tially bring the “Cineplex” to the con- ference center. The projection is high resolution (but not 4K yet). I hope the size of room is such that we can enable even more people to attend. Have you had the opportunity to view your images through virtual reality glasses, such as the Zeiss Cinemizer OLED 3D glasses? As a matter of fact, this is my next projection project. I am already using VR (virtual reality) glasses to test out the images. I think such glasses would be a good alternative for small-group learning. Are you still experimenting with 3-D photography with tissue-fluorescence technology? Any advancements there in clinical-setting technique? No success yet for 3-D. But I have been working closely with tissue- fluorescence group to work on a pic- ture capture device and workflow so that any clinician should be able to take pictures with one hand. I suspect once I twist such a system even more, I will be able to take 3-D tissue-fluores- cenceimageswithonehandaswell(so patients do not have to experience any sort of extra set-up time). Are you being approached by fellow clinicians interested in duplicating your use of 3-D photography to mon- itor patients’ lesions? There are indeed a few clinicians out therewhoareinterested,butoncethey find out how much time and effort is needed — as well as how much equip- ment, computer hardware and soft- ware is needed — they tend to bail out. Here at the PDC Learn about the Royal Canadian Dental Corps in booth No. 1351 in the Exhibit Hall. Attend today’s session Lt. Col. Genevieve Bussière presents “Military Foren- sic Identification Operations” today from 1:30–2:45 p.m. inVCCWest,Room212–214.Thesessionrepeats on Friday from 1:30–2:45 p.m. in VCC West, Room 205–207. Maj. Sandeep Dhesi presents “Operational Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma Care” today from 2:45–4 p.m. in VCC West, Room 212–214. The session repeats on Friday from 2:45–4 p.m. in VCC West, Room 205-207. ▲ ▲ WWI Canadian dentist and pa- tients. (Photo/ Provided by the George Metcalf Archival Collec- tion, © Canadian War Museum)

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