Nowadays, oral health care has become one of the rising medical components. The need for dental treatment is increasing day by day. This is due to the impact of excellent dental health promotion which has improved one person’s awareness towards it.

However, to no one’s surprise, one of the main hindrance to the dental treatment, is the illumination of lights into the oral cavity. Lights plays a major role since without it, many things could go wrong. For example, misdiagnosis of the tooth may occur which will compromise the treatment plan and jeopardized the status of the tooth. The most obvious situation to this trouble is during community outreach programme which sometimes be done at the improper places and with inadequate instruments.

Therefore, to ease the trouble and counter the problem, we have come up with the idea of portable light instrument namely “Dentolight”. It can be attached to a mouth mirror to give a proper lights and view in the oral cavity. What makes it special is that, it is detachable and shall be attached to another instrument as well not only to the mouth mirror but also dental probe or handpiece such as slow speed rotary instrument. It can also fasten the procedure since it can be directly be disinfected and attached to other instrument right after use. Hence, only “Dentolight” can be used during one dental treatment session for countless patients. Perhaps, people see it as a simple invention but the impact of it, shall empowered not only dentist who is working in the dental clinic but also those that serve during the community outreach programme.

As a conclusion, it is of high hope that this instrument could be used as a mean in improving dental treatment. If “Dentolight” receives positive and encouraging feedback and response from the operators, the same instrument can be developed further.

Team Members:
Dr Zurairah bt Ibrahim
Ammar Yasseer b Abdul Hakim
Nabilah Bt Nuairy
‘Afifah Bt Zarime
Ain Shahirah Bt Shukran