Of all the advances in dental since Dr. Foster and I faced off across an old Charlie Chaplin-style chair, the one I like best is the camera wand, a little stick with a couple of bright lights and a lens on the end that takes digital pictures of your teeth. For one thing, it doesn't hurt even a little. For another, you get to be a kind of exhibitionist without anybody being able to recognize you. And the distorted, oddly-lit pictures don't really tell you anything, but the very fact of their existence is way cool.
Posted by wallich at April 8, 2003 09:10 AMi want to see the pictures of your teeth. that's the kind of stone-cold freak i am.
Posted by: julie at April 8, 2003 10:55 AMHmm, digital cameras, digital cameras in phones, digital cameras in the dentist's office. I think that the next step will be a digital camera inside of an internal combustion engine to show the beauty and art of the controled explosion and the resulting expansion of gasses. Or just to use the color of the combustion to monitor and adjust the input of oxygen to accheive a more complete oxidation of the fuel. I will, however miss the lovely little mirror if those wands become mainstream.
Posted by: Tim at April 8, 2003 12:13 PMHey
Posted by: Kyle at October 29, 2003 10:15 PM