- Do you know?
- Space technology is being used in dentistry for taking X-rays- A Swedish company has adapted an advanced technique used for miniaturising space hardware to make a visit to the dentist a little more comfortable.
- The camera takes X-ray pictures that are dramatically more detailed and with higher contrast than the conventional X-ray machines widely used by dentists today. The heart of the camera is a tiny ‘structured scintillator’ device that converts X-rays to visible light.
- The camera was designed by the Scint-X company and the key element – the scintillator – was built by Swedish company Nanospace, drawing on their experience of producing space systems.
