The Newcastle University School of Dental Sciences has chosen Brandon Medical’s HD-LED examination lighting for its Clinical Simulation Unit (CSU). A key requirement was for low-level, rather than ceiling-mounted, lighting, to enable the viewing of wall-mounted training screens.
Brandon Medical’s Coolview HD-LED examination light was chosen and mounted directly onto workbenches. The long reach of the ‘LX’ spring balanced arm system allowed the positioning of the lamp heads to best suit the procedure. The new lights have increased by 64% the lighting available in the working area. The Coolview HD-LED lights’ intensity can be altered from 5% to 100% and, Brandon says, they provide ‘excellent colour corrected light’, ensuring accurate representation of the full colour spectrum. An unforeseeable benefit of upgrading the examination lights to an intensityadjustable LED source was that when students work with composite filling material, it needs to remain pliable during the restoration, enabling adjustments before curing with a specially designed UV light source. While the intensity of the older halogen lights could not be adjusted, which had caused premature setting of the composite, this is now not an issue.
