ErgoPractice News – July 2014 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com A clinician’s loupes can make or break their posture. If you practice with loupes that force you to excessively tilt your head, you are at risk of developing chronic pain in your neck, shoulders, and upper back. If you practice with loupes that guide your […]
SurgiTel Delivered the Magnification I Wanted Without The Pain Darryl L. Hatchett, DDS Darryl Hatchett DDS is a graduate of the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Dentistry. He has been in private practice doing general dentistry for 15 years. Dr. Hatchett lives and works in the Denver area along with his wife and two children. After […]
ErgoPractice News – June 2014 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com A large majority of dental professionals and surgeons today experience pain in their necks, shoulders, and upper backs. Many practitioners believe chronic pain is a necessary evil inseparable from the practice of dentistry or surgery. But, work-related pain can be avoided or reversed if we […]
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ErgoPractice News – May 2014 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com There are two main benefits of using loupes. The first is to improve our working posture: to avoid work-related pain and injuries.1 The second is to improve our vision: to see the details of our work.2-3 The key ergonomic factor for loupes is the declination […]
ErgoPractice News – April 2014 – Article 2 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com In the early 1990s, Dr. Lance Rucker (DDS, FACD, Professor and Director of Clinical Ergonomics in the Department of Oral Health Science at The University of British Columbia in Canada) raised a question: Are Surgical Telescopes (called Loupes) Posture Maker or Posture […]
ErgoPractice News – April 2014 – Article 1 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com Definition of Declination Angle and Its Ergonomic Role SurgiTel recognized the importance of the declination angle of loupes as the key ergonomic factor and invented flip-up style ergonomic loupes with an adjustable declination angle option in 1993. Since then, SurgiTel has developed […]
ErgoPractice News – March 2014 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com Brief History of SurgiTel’s Development of Headlights In the early 1990s, SurgiTel developed the first (maybe the first in the world) clinical portable headlight for dental and minor surgical procedures (Figure 1a). This was accomplished by using miniaturized halogen light bulbs. Soon after, SurgiTel introduced […]
ErgoPractice News – February 2014 – Article 2 By Jin Chang PhD jchang@surgitel.com Loupes have become ubiquitous in the practice of dentistry and surgery, and a required tool for the clinician’s best work. They use loupes both to see better and to work with comfortable, ergonomic postures. However, while common low-power loupes (2.0x to 3.0x) […]
ErgoPractice News – February 2014 – Article 1 By Martin B. Goldstein DMD, FAGD jchang@surgitel.com Teeth are small. The afflictions that can lead to their demise are even smaller. One such culprit, the intra-coronal fracture, is near impossible to see unless viewed under significant magnification. This is unfortunate as many a root canal treatment might […]
