Dental office lighting: beware of changes in lighting requirements!
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 practices is governed by a technical standard [1], which is made mandatory by law [2]. The current standard has been in force since 2012 and some lighting systems designed according to the previous standard [...]
Phototherapeutic lighting - part one
Chronobiological phototherapy [from the Greek chronos = time, bios = life, fos = light, therapia = treatment] as a method of chronobiological treatment, abbreviated as ChBFT, is a properly timed application of light of appropriate intensity and spectral composition to a person for the purpose of treating depression or adjusting the sleep-wake rhythm. Thanks to the joint efforts of chronobiologists, neurologists and psychiatrists, light therapy has become [...]
Light and the biological clock
Introduction Temporal rhythms can be found throughout the whole natural world. The circadian (from Latin circa-around, diem-day) have been discussed in the magazine Svetlo (Czech lighting journal) several times in the past few years. The expression 'circadian' was introduced in the 1950s by Franz Halberg, one of the founders of chronobiology, the science of temporal [...]
Chronobiological phototherapy
Heliotherapy, the treatment of lethargy with the help of sunlight, has been recommended by the classics of medicine for centuries, and the Czech proverb "where the sun doesn't go, the doctor goes" is true. Optical radiation has many uses in medicine: e.g. the whole spectrum of laser applications, the treatment of neonatal jaundice (photodegradation of bilirubin), photodynamic therapy (local activation of a drug by light) or the treatment of tuberculosis of the [...]
Biodynamic lighting
en- Biodynamic Lighting This adjective, composed of the Greek words βίος (bios: life, liveliness) and δύναμις (dynamis: force, potential, variability), refers not only to artificial lighting, whose variability imitates daylight, but also to the action of external forces on living organisms (adjacent to biomechanics) or to the way of farming according to Rudolf Steiner (adjacent to organic farming) or, for example, to signals from [...]
Playing with light
What do the Japanese learn from the Czechs? Would you believe that developing lighting fixtures can be an adrenaline sport? Has Europe fallen behind with LEDs? How do winter doldrums help in the development of dental luminaires? Read the interview with Ing. Antonín Fuksa, lead developer of DentaSun luminaires at NASLI and lead designer of the full-spectrum lighting studio. How did you get into full-spectrum lighting? I was solving a problem [...]
