Re: clinical microscope

>
>I wonder what I could
>actually accomplish clinically that isn't being accomplished already.
>

I would buy a surgical microscope tomorrow if I could figure out
where to put it in my crowded operatory.

Amatus

n 22 Sep 2005 12:42:59 -0700, "Bill" <dentaldoc@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>Mark & Steven Bornfeld wrote:
>> I've been toying with the idea (if not the reality) of getting an
>> operating microscope. The cost however is a big turnoff, esp. since
>> (despite the articles from restorative dentists using them) I have my
>> doubts about just how much I would use it.
>> I started idly looking around to see if I could get some reasonable
>> semblance of an operating microscope on the cheap, and saw a guy on ebay
>> selling a lot of instruments like this:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/9f6xo
>>
>> Is there any reason why something like this couldn't be made to work?
>> I e-mailed the seller who said that while this wasn't what it was
>> designed to do, he knew that a few folks were using it as an operating
>> scope.
>> I kinda wish Glen Van As was still here--he was the micro guy.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark & Steven Bornfeld DDS
>> http://www.dentaltwins.com
>> Brooklyn, NY
>> 718-258-5001
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>
>This doesn't look bad, though I also have my doubts about how much I
>would actually use an operating microscope. I wonder what I could
>actually accomplish clinically that isn't being accomplished already.
>
>One factor to consider is the depth of field. It would be very annoying
>to have the top of a prep in focus but the bottom out of focus if the
>depth of field isn't very great.
>
>And patients move around, too. Their movements would be magnified.
>
>- dentaldoc

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Amatus

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