Brazil dental lighting using PHILPS Lumileds white LED

PHILPS LumiLEDs Lighting announced that dental equipment manufacturer Brazil Gnatus developed a white LED dental lighting equipment. White LED uses the PHILPS Lumileds "LUXEON K2" product. At the same time, Gnatus also made it clear that the dental lighting equipment equipped with halogen lamps and equipped with white LED when the brightness, power consumption, life and other performance indicators of different.

Gnatus said, equipped with 5 white LED dental lighting can get a light beam of 30 thousand 5000lm/m2. Compared with the halogen lamp, the brightness increased by 40%. Equipped with white LED, power consumption is reduced by 60%, while the life expectancy compared with halogen lamps when the 3 to 6 months, LED up to 12 ~ 25 years. In addition, equipped with LED and equipped with halogen lights when different, can not need a mirror, so can reduce the volume of lighting appliances, etc..

In addition, the use of LUXEON K2 lighting equipment with a smaller range of lighting, 100mm x 100mm, the light can be concentrated in the patient's mouth exposure. Therefore, when compared with a halogen lamp, the patient will not feel dizzy. In addition, the company also introduced another advantage of using LED, because equipped with white LED light color temperature is 5500K, close to the sun, so the dentist will not be affected by the illumination color and actual color recognition and teething gums can be seen with the naked eye.

Dental lighting equipment with Gnatus white LED

Source: Nikkei BP