AN INTRAORAL MEDICAL DEVICE FOR PREDICTING ABNORMALITIES IN ORAL CANCER, MALIGNANT DISORDERS, INTERDENTAL CARIES, AND PERIDONTAL POCKETS

摘要

A hand held medical device with light emitting source and CCD camera for use to view upon oral cavity for intraoral screening of diseases such as oral cancer and potentially malignant disorders (PMD). The device has a supply of an illumination source of various wavelengths, a selector switch that enables the activation of a specific wavelength of light from the illumination source, a switch to adjust the intensity of various wavelength of the light emitting from the illumination source, an electronic system to control the selector switch and the illumination source, a camera to transmit and capture stored and live images from the oral cavity.