Technical Description; Task; Functionality - Sirona SIROInspect Operating Instructions Manual

3 Technical description

3.1 Task

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Technical description
Technical description
3.1
Task
SIROInspect Task
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FACE (Fluorescence aided caries excavation) is a method which
enables the practitioner to remove infected tooth material in a targeted
manner, based on the special fluorescent properties of the decomposition
products resulting from caries-causing bacteria.
3.2

Functionality

Functionality
FACE
As shown in the illustration below, the tooth is illuminated with an violet
light during the excavation. Carious tooth material and healthy dentin is
excited to fluorescence. The operator views the cavity through a filter.
Shorter wavelengths are thereby filtered out, in particular the violet
excitation light. Light with higher wavelengths remains visible through the
filter, so that the red-fluorescent sections of a caries can be precisely
detected. The red-fluorescent carious tooth material can be easily
detected and compared to neighboring green-fluorescent, normal tooth
material. The carious tooth material can therefore be precisely removed
with a bud bur or scraper.
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Operating Instructions SIROInspect
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D3584.201.01.03.02 02.2013