A SIMPLE PROCESS FOR THE ENHANCED VISUALIZATION OF ORAL MUCOSAL ABNORMALITIES - Amazing Healthcare Technology
From web site VELscope - O riginal publisher Traditional oral mucosal examination tools rely on reflected light to visualize the oral cavity. VELscope® Vx uses tissue fluorescence rather than reflectance. The basic premise of tissue fluorescence visualization is that it may enable clinicians to see the effects of cellular, structural, and/or metabolic activity changes in oral mucosal tissues by observing the fluorescence response of oral tissues in response to light excitation. Natural tissue fluorescence is caused by "fluorophores". When fluorophores are excited by light of an appropriate wavelength (for example, blue), they emit their own light at a longer wavelength (for example, green). Abnormal fluorescence patterns aid the clinician in visualizing unhealthy mucosal tissue that sometimes cannot be seen with the naked eye, including any tissue undergoing a change (which can occur in the oral mucosa for a multitude of reasons) such as premalignant d...