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Article: Emerging Dental Technologies Update.
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- Medical Equipment Designer
- Article date:
- March 1, 2000
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* New Dual Purpose Laser from NASA for Hard and Soft Tissue
* Electronic Nose Helps Detect Disease and infection
What do lasers and electronic noses have in common? They are both part of the welcome evolution from dental tools derived from chisels and pliers to a new world of high tech painfree dentistry. Technology from one of NASA Langley Research Center's earth science programs is being developed into a dental laser system that will provide wavelengths applicable to both hard and soft tissue treatment. And an electronic nose developed under license from the California Institute of Technology uses a sensor array, computer and pattern recognition ...