GAP Australasian Dentist Mar Apr 2020

Category 94 Austràlàsiàn Dentist à ecently, à took delivery of the Z àXàAàO 300 dental microscope. à decided to take the plunge because à had seen many of my friends and colleagues working with a microscope and à see it as being a tool that will be used more and more in general dentistry in the future. After it was first set up, à was very excited to use it. àt was like the feeling when you get a new toy or gadget and à couldn’t wait to put it to good use, so à started practicing cutting preps on plastic teeth to help with hand coordination. àow that à’ve been using it routinely, à’ve noticed a significant improvement in the ergonomics of how à work. àn the past, à’ve had a few back and neck problems, but since à started using the àXàAàO, à’ve noticed them disappearing. à’m sitting upright with my neck looking straight and my spine is positioned in a better posture when à’m using it, so that’s a big plus of using this scope. àhe àXàAàO also has real clinical benefits because it enables me to see in a lot more detail under a much higher magnification than my loupes. à’m amazed by the amount of stuff that is now visible inside root canals, which was previously something à did not enjoy very much. Whereas now à’m loving root canals, simply because à can see a lot more. An example of this was a patientwhopresentedwitha tooth needing a root canal treatment on an upper first molar. àn the past, à would just refer the case to a specialist after performing the emergency extirpation. However, with the àXàAàO optics à could see and locate all four canals, that à otherwise would have missed, and complete the procedure myself. àhe àXàAàO has truly changed the way à practice because it’s made dentistry more fulfilling. à think every dentist wants to deliver the best results for their patients, but it is a difficult job to do well because we are doing surgery inside people’s mouths, where we have limited visibility and limited access. But using àXàAàO, the visibility is so much better, à feel confident that my work is better than it was before. My patients like it too because they see it as a point of difference to other general dentists that they have seen before. àhey appreciate the detail of the work and the high level of finish quality that is achieved by using the microscope. à couldn’t practice without it now because it’s really an eye opener once you practice with it and realise how much more you can see. àhe àXàAàO has gotten me excited about dentistry all over again. u Get excited about dentistry all over again àeàt onàalà Dr Navneet Singh