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SOPROLIFE
BETTER DIAGNOSIS, BETTER LIFE
SOPROLIFE is an excellent tool to identify and excavate decay. Daylight, diagnostic and treatment modes aid in effective, minimally invasive treatment while preserving healthy tissue.
BETTER DIAGNOSIS, BETTER LIFE
SOPROLIFE is an excellent tool to identify and excavate decay. Daylight, diagnostic and treatment modes aid in effective, minimally invasive treatment while preserving healthy tissue.
In white light, from Portrait to Macro, SOPROLIFE produces unequalled quality of image. This mode not only enables you to communicate more effectively with your patients, but also gives you the ability to see details which are invisible to the naked eye.
SOPROLIFE® is more accurate in identifying the development of occlusal and/or proximal carious lesions. This mode can help speed up the decision making process in treatment planning and enables safer options for the patients without ionizing radiation.
Clinical performance is enhanced as SOPROLIFE enables you to visually differentiate between infected and healthy tissue in the excavated site.
“The simplicity and sophistication of ... (the) SoproLIFE is unmatchable. It has changed the way I operate as a dentist. The images it provides me and the patient is unlike any other product I have used before. The details it shows in the pictures makes detecting cavities easier than it ever has been before! Me and my practice would be at a severe disadvantage if we didn't use ...the cavity finder from SoproLife.”
Dr. Shane R. Costa, DDS Great Falls and Brambleton, VA - Private Practice
The SOPROLIFE combines an intraoral camera providing exceptional detail with caries detection into one device making caries detection easier. Additionally, SOPROLIFE enhances my skills as a dentist by enabling me to detect caries earlier and more conservatively remove decay. SOPROLIFE is a valuable tool to thoroughly examine teeth for caries and fractures.
Martin Jablow D.M.D.
SoproLIFE is an outstanding adjunct to traditional cavity detecting methods. It's high resolution intra-oral camera gives crystal clear images and with the press of a button, it becomes a high tech, accurate, cavity detection unit.
SoproLIFE is a winner and needs to be in every dental office.
Ron Kaminer D.D.S.
International Author and Lecturer
Hewlett, NY, USA.
It is an effective device with three mode capturing system, which is helping me to diagnose and capture the carious lesions including early lesions with excellent magnified view. This, in turn, is quite helpful to make the best possible treatment strategies for my patients.
Thanks to its “red fluorescence” which is helpful in taking right decisions about cavity depth by clearly differentiating between healthy and diseased tissues.
Moreover, with the images directly seen on computer screen, both the patient motivation and cooperation has improved multifold.
It’s truly become a necessary tool in my practice today!!
Dr Neeraj Gugnani
Professor, Pediatric Dentistry
DAV (C) Dental College, YamunaNagar
India.
Ever since all times, it is one of the hardest challenges for every dentist, not only to diagnose caries, but to remove it completely, residue-free and minimal-invasive.
Most of the systems that were offered in the market, like laser-based methods, elder fluorescence-cameras, CDI (Electric Current Density Imaging), caries-detector-fluids and similar, were cost-intensive, unhandy or very unspecific and did not assist the dentist adequate in his work life.
With the LIFE-D.T.-System (LIFE = Light Induced Fluorescence Evaluator), that was now in the SoproLife for the first time integrated in an intraoral camera, we have a system, that is unbeatable in suppleness and handling.
The different fluorescence-phenomenon of teeth and porphyrine, a precipitate of bacteria, are that obviously different (healthy = green, infected = red), that a short view is enough, to evaluate the situation.
That gives us on the one hand the possibility to explain to the patient, which treatment is necessary, to recognize initial lesions that can not be seen in x-ray-pictures and beyond that to control the result of the excavation.
As there is no time needed to get familiar with the system, it is possible to easily integrate the SoproLife into everyday’s workflow and within no time it gets an indispensable part of the treatment course.
Dr. Henrik-Christian Hollay
Germany
In addition to relying upon the skills of the general practitioner, the clinical success of our conservative or prosthetic work is intimately linked to our visual capacity.
However, the latter tends, in reality, to be poor and the use of magnifying glasses (2.5x) becomes absolutely essential in order make it easier to see and, in so doing, to give us a better understanding.
Here, we touch on the very heart of what the SOPROLIFE camera is all about. Not only does it give far better magnification (> 50x), but its fluorescent mode enables us to distinguish between the various tissues affected by caries.
In mode I (diagnostic) caries can be picked up right at the outset, whilst in mode II (treatment) this surgical tool is so effective that it has made itself indispensable. The winning feature of this device is the way in which fluorescence has been combined with image amplification.
This tool has truly become an essential feature of daily practice, enabling general practitioners not only to deliver better care, but also to be able to discuss cases better with their patients, presenting themselves in an even better light in the process.
Pr Hervé TASSERY PU-PH, Head of the Department Conservative Dentistry/Endodontics,
Marseilles Dental Studies Unit
For a number of years, I have been aiming for minimally invasive prophylactic practice when dealing both with caries and with parodontics.
This requires:
I chose SOPROLIFE for its diagnostic system (LIFE-DT), which is far more powerful than the one that I had been using previously.
However, it became clear very soon that its strengths can be put to many different uses and this camera has now become an essential part of my daily practice.
I have re-designed the ergonomics at my workplace so that I can have it ready at any time. What could be easier for keeping a constant watch over my treatments and over my restorative, endodontic and prosthetic work!
From now on, I will be able to "get right inside the lesion", to understand how it is developing and how it is organised, also to take the right treatment decision and to monitor my technique. For me, this is still "magic" after so many years of fumbling around to find a satisfactory solution.
Dr. Michel BLIQUE - NANCY www.dentisterie-peu-invasive.com
The carious lesion is not visible under white light
The fluorescence image shows a demineralization on the marginal mesial ridge compared to the opposite ridge.
The radiography confirms the presence of the carious lesion of stage 3.
Under white light, the entry point of the caries can be seen.
The fluorescence image shows the demineralized enamel, the destructured, infected dentine.
At the end of the preparation, the fluorescence image shows that all of the infected dentine was removed.
Under white light, brownish colorations appear at the occlusal and interproximal levels
The image of fluorescence shows light demineralization and confirms the presence of a caries in the proximal area
The radiography confirms the diagnosis of SOPROLIFE
Under white light, we can see a deep cavity that was already suspected on the radiography.
The image of fluorescence clearly shows the infected dentine.
At the end of the preparation, the image of fluorescence shows that all of the infected dentine was removed. The reddish area at the bottom corresponds to a tertiary dentine.
The white light shows a brownish spot.
The image of fluorescence shows a demineralization around this spot.
A cavity can be seen under white light.
The image of fluorescence shows demineralized enamel and infected dentine.
At the end of preparation, the image of fluorescence shows that all of the infected dentine was removed.
The white light clearly shows an occlusal carious lesion.
The image of fluorescence shows a demineralization around the lesion.
We can see the cavity under white light.
The image of fluorescence shows destructured and infected dentine.
At the bottom of the preparation, the image of fluorescence shows that all of the infected dentine was removed. The orange colorization on the side corresponds to tertiary dentine.
The white light does not reveal the carious lesion.
The image of fluorescence does not show either any carious lesion.
Radiography shows a dark area.
The dentist decides to trust the radiography, he opens the cavity but discover in fact a non radio opaque composite.
The white image shows a dressing on caries in course of treatment.
The image of fluorescence in lingual area shows a rest of demineralization.
The radiography shows that the caries is very close to the pulp.
Under white light, you can see the opened cavity after the removal of the dressing.
The image of fluorescence shows there is infected dentine remaining.
At the end of preparation (pulpotomy), the image of fluorescence confirms the excavation of all the infected dentine.
The white image shows an infiltration in lingual area at the junction of the composite.
The image of fluorescence confirms the presence of a renewal of the caries.
The radiography does not reveal this caries' renewal.
Under white light after total removal of the composite, nothing abnormal is visible.
The image of fluorescence shows the infected dentine.
At the end of the preparation, there is no infected area left.
The image of fluorescence on occlusal face shows variations of fluorescence around the composite
The image of fluorescence of the proximal area confirms the presence of caries.
The radiography also confirms the proximal caries but is blind to some occlusal ones.
The image of fluorescence shows the different infected areas.
The white image shows an attack of the enamel at the level of the neck.
The image of fluorescence confirms the attack of the enamel at the level of the neck and also shows a proximal caries.
The radiography confirms the caries.
The image of fluorescence in course of the treatment. Infected areas remain.
At the end of treatment, no infected zone left.
The blue LEDs we selected emit light at 450nm. This wavelength excites dentine which, in reaction, sends a light signal named fluorescence. The fluorescence signal reflected is very small (low intensity) compared to the 450nm intensity sent by the blue LEDs.
If the treatment aid mode is used for diagnosis purpose, we will obtain on screen an amplification of the red and thus get many « false alerts » due to organic deposits in the mouth of the patient. All these organic deposits generate un very light signal of red fluorescence. If the Mode II was used for the detection a caries, a complete cleaning of the mouth would be necessary to avoid these “false alerts”. The diagnosis aid mode, far less sensitive to all these organic deposits , allows to avoid these « false alerts ».
Yes, SOPROLIFE can magnify the image up x 115. Can SOPROLIFE also be used as a classical intra-oral camera? Yes, SOPROLIFE is the only concept in the world proposing two different visions. The Daylight mode allows the dentist to use SOPROLIFE as an intra-oral camera under white light for the communication with his patient. The image quality supplied by SOPROLIFE under white light is superior to the others intra-oral cameras.
Yes, we supply specific connection docks to integrate SOPROLIFE in most dental units.
If you work in several examination rooms, each of them can be equipped with a docking station linked to the computer or to the video screen available in this room so that you can carry and use SOPROLIFE in each of the examination rooms.
Yes, SOPROLIFE can be delivered with a connection dock with Video and S-Video outputs.
If you already have a Sopro 595, a Sopro 617 or a Sopro 717, you can connect SOPROLIFE hand piece on your present installation without any parameter settings.
No.
No, it is useless to clean prior the first diagnostic in "mode I" of SOPROLIFE. Cleaning with sodium bicarbonate of the suspicious fissure(s) is recommended in order to confirm the carious signal.
No, SOPROLIFE emits no ultra-violet wave.
Yes, of course. SOPROLIFE is free from any ionizing rays and is the perfect caries diagnosis aid tool for children and pregnant women.
No.
No. SOPROLIFE must be used with intra-oral barriers supplied with the product. You can contact your dealer to purchase other dental barriers.
Yes, they can be sterilized at 134°C - 2 bars - 18 minutes. We nevertheless advise you to change these tips after about fifty cycles of sterilization.
According to the pathologies of the tooth (destructured enamel, affected dentine, anfractuous fissure, presence of a crown…), the signal of fluorescence of the dentine will be different (weaker, darker, redder, absent…)
When SOPROLIFE generates a red fluorescence in a fissure, it is either due to a caries or to organic deposits. In this case a cleaning (pounce bag, air abrasion linked to Na bicarbonate ) is advised only in the suspicious fissure in order to avoid a falser alert.
The spectrum of the signal of fluorescence (let’s call it "its color") is rather in the green when the dentine is healthy and red/dark when the dentine is infected.
The light must cross the enamel to excite the dentine. Following this excitation, the dentine send back a signal of fluorescence which must cross the enamel to be interpreted. The thicker the enamel is, the weaker the signal of fluorescence is. The intensity of the green light will be weaker and gradually tinted with blue (because of the way through enamel). This is the case for the cusps
To shift from Mode I (Diagnosis) to Mode II (Treatment) but also to DAYLIGHT Mode (White light).
The protective tip allows to isolate SOPROLIFE from any external light during its use in Fluorescence mode. It is also advised to move the light of the scialytic so that it is not directed at the patient’s mouth.
SOPROLIFE is equipped with a SoproTouch (Sopro trademark). You just have to brush the SoproTouch once the selected image appears on screen. The image is automatically freezed on screen and saved in your software if it is configured accordingly. If you prefer using a remote control pedal rather than the SoproTouch to freeze the image, you just have to plug the pedal (supplied as option) on the docking station (if this one is equipped with a pedal input). In this configuration, the SoproTouch is inhibited.
Yes, because SOPROCARE can be delivered with a docking station with a USB 2.0 output.
Operating system: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5
Memory: 4 GB
Hard disk: 1TB
USB Ports: 4 USB2 Hi-Speed ports
Graphic card : Chipset Nvidia® or ATI® 512MB unshared memory compatible DirectX 9 or more
USB Chipset: Intel or NEC / RENESAS
Screen resolution: 1280 x 1024 or more
Computer: iMac 27”
Operating system: Mac OS X El Capitan
Processor: Intel Core i7
RAM: 4GB
Yes, SOPROLIFE is compatible with all imaging softwares.
Yes. If you do not have any imaging software or want to use the Sopro Imaging software for its friendly-use, it is supplied with SOPROLIFE.
Sopro Imaging proposes, further to its standard image acquisition mode, a mode of acquisition and of consultation offering a complete dental status of the patient. This status gives also access to a very useful comparison mode during the follow-up of the patient in time as well as a direct access to the consultation of the Clinical booklet.
Our camera drivers will load and correctly function under Windows 7, 8 and 10 in both the 32 and 64 bit environments. Please be sure to direct the Microsoft Hardware Wizard to use the drivers on the CD or to use those downloaded from our website. You may receive a warning that the driver set is unsigned but this can be safely ignored.
SOPROLIFE can be cleaned with a disinfecting wipe (Type Septol from Pierre Rolland).
No products with ammoniac, trichloroethylene, dichloroethylene, ammonium chloride , aromatic and chloride hydrocarbons, Methylene chloride, cetones, which can damage the plastic parts.
Yes, they can be sterilized at 134°C - 2 bars - 18 minutes. We nevertheless advise you to change these tips after about fifty cycles of sterilization.
The standard warranty period is 24 months.
This medical device is classified IIb according to the current applicable European Directive. It is CE marked. Notified Body : CE 0459 LNE-GMED. This medical devices dedicated to dental cares is restricted to health staff ; it is not reimbursed by health insurance organizations. This device was developed and manufactured according to the EN ISO 13485 quality control certification system. Read carefully the user manual. Manufacturer : SOPRO (France).
