Enhancing dentistry with the dental-video procedure scope

We originally saw the MagnaVu by Magnified Video Dentistry at a trade show and immediately saw the potential to improve close-up vision, even beyond our 4.5x loupes.

Our dental supply dealer simply removed our current exam light and replaced it with the MagnaVu.

The MagnaVu provides us better lighting — up to 24x magnification — and allows us to sit up in a more comfortable, upright and ergonomic position while working from a hi-res LCD display similar to what medical surgeons have been doing for years.

The MagnaVu provides the same images and orientation as I see with my eyes, so after a short training session, it only took me about a week to transition from looking directly at the patient to working from the screen with a natural tactile sense and depth perception.

The nice thing is that the MagnaVu doesn’t change the way I perform procedures, it just enhances what I have always been doing.

In the past, I used to sit like a pretzel, bent over my patient in all sorts of back-contorting and straining angles.

With the MagnaVu, I now have the option of sitting up and working in high magnification; now it’s rare that I put on my loupes.

I got the MagnaVu because I wanted to see better, but then we observed an even more profound effect: I’ll probably practice years longer because I’m no longer killing my back and neck.

Eventually, nearly every dental staff member will experience some degree of back, neck or eye strain, and many of us are forced to retire earlier than we had planned.

Before I began using the Magna-Vu scope, by every afternoon I’d start to feel a burning sensation around the region of the right scapula, sometimes radiating up into the shoulder.

Now, however, even though I am working out of several operatories and only have the MagnaVu in two of them, I am consistently making it through the afternoons with little or no squawking from my back and shoulder.

I now have increased magnification, better lighting, improved patient understanding and I end up feeling less fatigued during the day and after work.

Using the MagnaVu Dental Procedure Scope is just a great way to spend your day.