Dental Health
Let There Be Light!
Preferably, an LED curing light…
Though it’s tough to take in your surroundings when your dentist is working away in your mouth, you might have noticed a blue light during some stage of your dental care, particularly if you’ve ever needed to have a cavity filled. That blue light is called a curing light and is used to cure, or set, resin-based composites to your teeth. As dentistry evolved, so did curing lights, emerging and changing to keep pace with other dental technologies.
Here, a brief history of the curing light and more background on that little blue light than you ever cared to know…