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How is the dental transillumination test performed?
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Fibre-optic light: Dentist use this fibre-optic shining light through hard and soft tissue to DX internal defects such as caries, cracks, trauma or enamel infractions.
Answered 6/10/2014
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A light is used: A bright light is shown through the teeth and decay can be seen, also cracks can be seen at times.
Answered 10/2/2012
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Illuminating: This involves shining a light thru the tooth to identify cracks, cavities and other alterations to the tooths enamel its painless but does help identify potential cracks and how bad they are.
Answered 6/8/2017
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