In order to offer the highest level of care, Dr. Hartwell and his hygienists Jeanne and Dani have incorporated the new VELscope® Oral Cancer Screening System into our dental practice. The VELscope® device helps us respond to the recent growth in incidence of oral cancer. The breakthrough technology sets new oral tissue screening standards, enabling cancerous lesions to be diagnosed that may be undetectable under regular overhead white dental lights. It is the next generation of oral cancer detection that has arisen out of the success of ViziLite, which we have been using.
VELscope® uses blue excitation light and a specialized filter to help dental professionals screen the oral cavity for cancerous lesions. “The VELscope offers our patients a quick and painless way to decrease the potential devastation from undiagnosed oral cancer,” says Dr. Hartwell.