Dental office lighting: the overlooked requirements of the 2012 lighting standard
We take in more than 80% of information by sight, so proper lighting plays a vital role in virtually all human activities. In healthcare, the most noble values such as human health and life are at stake. The lighting of dental surgeries is governed by the technical standard ČSN EN 12464-1 specifying the minimum lighting of working areas,[1] which is made mandatory by Act No. 61/2007 Coll.[2] The [...]
Dental Summit 2013
Light and biological clock
Introduction Time rhythms can be found throughout the living realm. Circadian (from Latin circa - around, dies - day) or approximately daily rhythms have been mentioned several times in the magazine Světlo - e.g. in issues 1 and 3/2005 or 5 and 6/2008. The term circadian was introduced in the 1950s by Franz Halberg, one of the founders of chronobiology, [...]
