Broken X-ray Sensors - Why They Break

Broken X-ray Sensors - Why They Break

Digital x-ray sensors, just like any other piece of technology, can become finicky and break with general use.  Things like cable protectors, patient biting, connector wear can all attribute to a xray sensor not functioning correctly.  

For more information about why dental x-ray sensors break, whether or not new sensor cables on Schick x-ray sensors will be more durable and whether or not sensors in general are affordable.

Carestream / Kodak RVG 6100 Sensor

Dexis Dental Sensor Repair - Don't Throw Out That Broken Dexis Sensor!

Here at Sodium Systems LLC we do our best to help customers with Dexis sensor repair. We perform Dexis Classic Sensor repair and Dexis Platinum Sensor Repair in house and we are not affiliated with Dexis or there parent company in any way. If you have a Dexis sensor you would like repaired. Just follow this link to Dexis Sensor Repair.

Dexis sensor repair can be difficult because the old classic sensor uses a special 19 pin round connector that requires a high degree of skill to solder to and can be difficult to find and purchase. We also have gone to great efforts to have our own custom cable manufactured that we believe will be both very good for signal transfer and durability. The key was to also insure the cable would be very thin and flexible. if you see other companies advertising that they do dental sensor repair or Dexis sensor repair, one big question to ask them is if they are performing a full cable replacement or simply cutting out bad sections and leaving you with your old cable. These inline splice repairs will result in a section of failure and a greater amount of noise in the signal because a break and re splice always causes signal degradation in a copper wire.

Also, many of the sites out there advertising Dexis sensor repair are not performing the repairs in house, they are receiving your sensor and then having a non employee do the repair. I would suggest getting it in writing that only employees of the company you are sending your very expensive sensor off to are going to have access to your sensor.

There are other aspects of Dexis sensor repair that are important. What type of facility is the repair being performed in? How many hours of experience does the repair technician have with repairing your sensor. Sodium Systems can show that its Dexis Sensor Repair technicians have over 2000 hours of Dexis Sensor Repair experience. That is a real number and to put it on this blog in print means it is true. Other companies may use phrases like “very experienced”, “lots of experience”, “most experience” which are all ways to avoid actually telling you how much experience they have because if they had to list in real hours they would most have 100 times less experience. There have been several companies with absolutely no experience that just know how the internet works that if they post up a page and make general claims real companies, with real technicians and real experience can not do anything about it because a general claim of “very experienced” is always defend able. They can say they did 1 sensor and feel that is “very experienced”.

So with Dexis sensor repair, Dexis Platinum Repair, and Dexis Classic repair I have some questions for you to ask any company who is offering you repair services (and get it in an email because people will say anything over the phone). This is very very important because if the repair is not performed correctly the technician could actually destroy what could have been a repairable sensor.
1. Will an employee of your company be providing the repair services?

2. How many hours of experience does your technician have repairing Dental Xray Sensors or get specific and ask them how much experience their technician has repairing Dexis Sensors?

3. How many Dexis Sensor Repairs has the employee performed?

4. Does the company do a full cable replacement or are they splicing your cable?

5. Are they using anti static devices, do they have calibrated digitally controlled temperature soldering irons, are they using non corrosive flux, are they using high silver low led solder for best connection, and finally are they using a potting flux and silicone protector to both insure the durability of the sensor and the ability to re repair the sensor years down the road if it is needed.

I believe that if you keep these things in mind you can get your Dexis sensor repair done right and save yourself thousands of dollars over purchasing a new sensor.

Week 2 - Digital Intra Oral X-Ray Sensors - The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Part 2

Digital Intra Oral X-Ray Sensors

-Good Image Quality - Part 1
-Reliability - Part 2
-Price - Part 3
-Functionality - Part 4

Reviewed Sensors:
-Eva by Dent-X (AFP Imaging)
-SuniRay-Suni Corporation (Orange Dental)
-Dixi 3-Planmeca
-Dexis Platinum-Dexis
-CDR Elite-Schick
-Kodak RVG6100- Kodak (Owned By Carestream Now)

Part 2: Reliability

Reliability seems like a very difficult item to judge. Digital X-Ray companies do not fall under the same systems that govern auto parts or other industrial items where the failure rate is known to a very good accu........ Read the rest of the Week 2 - Digital Xray Sensor Review here!

Hardware Drivers For Your Technology

The other day we decided to move a film scanner that we use for scanning digital radiographs and intra oral images to a different computer.  It only took a few minutes to move the radiograph scanner to the other computer but once I plugged ............ Read the rest of the Hardware Drivers For Your Technology article here!

Week 1 - Digital Intra Oral X-Ray Sensors - The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Part 1

The topic is Digital Intra Oral X-Ray Sensors

-A device with either a CCD or CMOS sensor (just like in your digital camera except bigger) and then a coding or solid filter that converts X-rays to light that the sensor can read. Some medical digital X-Ray uses a specially charged plate that can read the X-ray directly without conversion. I do not believe any company is currently using this technology in dental............. Read the rest of the Week 1 - Digital Intra Oral X-ray Sensors - The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Part 1 article here!

Skip the Robot, Talk to a Person

These days, calling technical support can be a real nightmare for a number of reasons: long hold times, unintelligible outsourced operators, and “Tier 1” technicians who almost inevitably know less about the product in question than you do. But the worst of all tech-support injustices is the automated frustration dispensers that companies sometime employ to put you through a labyrinth of touch-tone menus before you can talk to a real person.

But you don’t have to put up with all of that, thanks to Gethuman.com, which tells you—on a company by company basis—exactly what number to call and what buttons to press to get through to a real, human operator.

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Solar Power = Obsolescence of Toothpaste

New technology allows tooth brush to utilize solar rays to catalyze a powerful chemical reaction that could leave your mouth more clean than using toothpaste! "You see complete destruction of bacterial cells," says Kunio Komiyama, the inventor of the device.

Mechanical University of Saskatchewan dentistry professor emeritus Dr. Kunio Komiyama and his colleague Dr. Gerry Uswak (pictured above) are recruiting 120 teens willing to brush with their prototype solar powered toothbrush. The Shiken Company of Japan are paying researchers to investigate whether the brush does a better job of eliminating plaque and bacteria than a conventional toothbrush.

Dr Komiyama's first model, which was described 15 years ago in the Journal of Clinical Periodontology, contained a titanium dioxide rod in the neck of the brush just below the nylon bristles. When light shines on the wet rod it releases electrons. Those electrons react with acid in the mouth which helps break down plaque....NO TOOTHPASTE REQUIRED!

Dr Komiyama's newest model of the toothbrush, the Soladey-J3X, apparently packs twice the checmical power than the original prototype. There is a solar panel at the base of the Soladey-J3X which transmits electrons to the top of the toothbrush through a lead wire.

I would be interested to see what kind of feeling the toothbrush leaves your mouth with. I love the clean mouth feeling I get after brushing with my traditional paste, how would this toothbrush compare? How would this toothbrush affect bad breathe? These are some of the questions I want answered.

What is your opinion?

Article via Shiken Co. Ltd.