Which microscope is the best?


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From: Carlos Murgel
To: ROOTS
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 12:36 AM
Subject: [roots] What microscope is the best??

I put this material together so everybody can understand what we want from a microscope as far as the lower
magnification is concerned and the illuminated field.  I hope you can benefit from it.

I don't want to do any microscope attack here just took the numbers from the catalogs and try to show what
we would see in reality.

Carlos Murgel
















HI, I think there might be a diconnect with what is in the manual or how it is
being worked out.

I havent had time to contact zeiss but just clikced a quick shot today to show
field of view on my lowest mag. (sorry about the poor quality of pic but it was
only to show field of view)

It seems so much larger than what is being quoted. I'm not sure if you really
need any bigger field of view.

see attached - tim



Good morning Tim,

As I said in the begining I made some mathematical calculations so this is may not represent the reality.
Now if you look my picture side by side with your you will see that I am not far from reality.  You can only
see until the first premolars just lime my picture.  Anothe consideration is that every patient has a
different arch size so mine may be larger than yours or vice versa.  The ideal setup would be to use the
same model, same camera, adapter and take a picture with all the scopes.  I am sure that the manufactures
would not like this....

Now if you don't see a need to see more under the microscope I can't do anything about this.  After so may
year teaching microdentstry I learned that vision for dentists is like a religion: you can't discuss because
it is a personal belive.

I want to see the most that my scope can offer me so I can do more under the scope, but if you are happy
and I am sure that you are I am too.

Thanks for the picture and keep the excellent work that you do - Carlos Murgel