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16 Nov 2006





Olympus Enters the Dental Equipment Market
Olympus Corporation (Olympus, President: Tsuyoshi Kikukawa) will make its debut in dental equipment market in November 2006. Developed and manufactured by Olympus, the Crystaleye Spectrophotometer is a dental color analysis system for use in dental offices and laboratories. It will be sold in Japan through Pentron Japan Inc. (President: Kuniaki Usui). Olympus will continue to expand its involvement in the dental equipment market by developing new products based on its optical and image processing technologies.

In recent years there has been increasing demand for aesthetic dental treatment using dental prostheses*. This has created a need for tools capable of providing precise color information about patients' teeth. Traditionally dentists and dental technicians have obtained tooth color information through visual examinations using color samples known as "shade guides." With this method, the information cannot be conveyed accurately to the technicians who produce the prostheses. Color mismatching between prostheses and patients' teeth may necessitate the remaking of prostheses.

The "Crystaleye" is an extremely precise dental color analysis system based on original optical technology developed by Olympus. It can accurately analyze tooth colors simply by photographing the patient's teeth. Prostheses manufactured in the laboratory can be photographed in a specially designed dental jaw model, allowing comparisons in the same environment as in the oral cavity.

By introducing this product, Olympus aims to promote the use of this technology as the standard dental color analysis method.




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