013 The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee

On this week’s episode of The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee, Michelle is joined by Dr. Marie Fluent, the lead author of “Shedding Light on a Potential Hazard: Dental Light-Curing Units”, to discuss the paper and its findings.

 

Episode Highlights:

 

• How the idea to write the paper and the writing team came together
• What the team discovered during their research and writing
• The risks associated with blue lights and how to protect against them
• Recommendations regarding eye protection methods
• Regulatory guidance regarding blue light and its associated hazards

 

Quotes:

 

“Blue light is everywhere…in dentistry we’re exposed to even more blue lights.”

 

“Our technology has vastly improved, but unfortunately, our eye protection has not.”

 

“This has slipped through the cracks as a risk that is relatively new in dentistry, and is not in any of our current literature.”

 

“If I haven’t seen it, chances are the average clinician has not either.”

 

“My hopes with this entire paper is that it does increase awareness.”

 

Links:

 

The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:

http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/

  

The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429

 

OSAP’s homepage: https://www.osap.org/

  

Michelle Lee’s email:   mlee@osap.org

 

‘Shedding Light on a Potential Hazard’ link:

https://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177(19)30609-9/abstract