December 21 is the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere. It's the shortest day of the year in Helsinki with only 5 hours, 49 minutes of daylight. We care about good quality lighting to get us through these darkest days of winter!

December 21, 2022. Helsinki at 14:30pm facing south toward the midday sun. 

But what do we mean when we ask for good quality lighting to be used in healthcare? Scroll down to learn:

• What are the 3 types of lighting?
• Who defines lighting in healthcare facilities?
• How is Light Quality Defined?
• Other characteristics affect the light and image quality?
• Is it possible to improve my lighting in software?
  

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Improved communication improves patient satisfaction, but the patient must have a good experience! 

In this post, we will share feedback from dental camera users and from patients to help you create a comfortable experience:

• Choose the right equipment. 
• Introduce dental photography with an example. 
• Ask for consent. 
• Prepare the equipment.
• Size the equipment correctly.
• Monitor the patient's comfort. 
• Show and share the results.
• Help the patient to make good decisions.

Using a handsfree, non-interruptive camera means that comprehensive photos can be taken with every patient without adding time to the treatment.

Visual aids and multimedia are guaranteed ways to help your patients understand, be more satisfied and less anxious about their dental treatment.

Improved communication = understanding + treatment acceptance + satisfaction

Have you ever been mid-way through an explanation to a patient and realized they don’t truly understand? Is it then difficult to convince that patient to accept the treatment plan?

All education has gone through a massive leap into the digital era during recent years. Dental education is no exception. Dental education benefits from deploying new digital tools for remote education purposes, but also in class rooms to enhance learning. Here is how taking a non-interruptive camera system into use in your classroom can help you improve teaching and learning. 

It is essential that the dentist and dental technician work together effectively as a team. From a video and other visual footage, the dental technician receives significantly more information of the patient’s intraoral condition: movements of the lower jaw, resilience of the oral mucosa, smile line and color of teeth can easily be seen. In addition, the dentist has the possibility to get essential feedback from the dental technician. Video material and other visual footage enhance communication with the dental technician and a higher level of co-operation is reached resulting in improved patient satisfaction. 

The story of Novocam Medical Innovations could very well be straight from an entrepreneurship start-up textbook. There was friendship, a dream, know-how and a huge amount of work that were the building blocks for a company that aimed to be a clear market leader in its field worldwide. The company's journey has been a successful one, with its products used in 80 countries around the world. The company is best known through its dental brand, Futudent. From it’s Helsinki headquarters, it designs, manufactures and markets dental cameras based on the latest technology and highest quality.