Lighting our world.

The article reports that auxiliary illumination is an important addition to the clinical armamentarium. Fortunately, today's dental clinicians have a wide range of choices which include headlights, auxiliary fiber-optic lighting and several piezo electric ultrasonic scalers, to illuminate the oral cavity. Also, magnetostrictive ultrasonic inserts that have a small LED light and foil-covered moisture-absorbing discs increase light reflection in the mouth and prevent salivary contamination.