Eastman Kodak Company’s dental business is supporting the dental care of participants of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City by providing x-ray film, chemistry and local anesthetics. Kodak is supplying Kodak InSight Intraoral Film, Kodak Ektavision G and Ektavision L Extraoral Film, Kodak Ektavision Imaging Screens, Kodak Readymatic Chemistry and Cook-Waite Local Anesthetics. The products provided will be used at the Olympic Polyclinic, a healthcare facility affiliated with the Olympic Athletes Village. Dental care services for the Polyclinic include diagnosis and treatment of injuries to the oral maxillofacial region, as well as routine dental procedures such as the replacement of fillings.
Preparation for the dental care facility began last fall. Kodak staff assisted in setting up and testing the Polyclinic’s dental diagnostics equipment, working closely with Instrumentarium, which provided a Focus Intraoral X-ray machine and an Ortho Pantomograph OP 100 panoramic x-ray machine, and Air Techniques, which provided an A/T 2000 XR processor. The dental area of the Polyclinic is being staffed by the Dental Education department of the University of Utah School of Medicine plus dental volunteers from the local community, under the direction of G. Lynn Powell, D.D.S.
Kodak has been a Worldwide Sponsor of the Olympic Games for 105 years. In addition to the dental care facility, Kodak’s Health Imaging division has outfitted a medical digital radiography room to provide imaging exams of athlete injuries. Equipment provided for this area includes a Kodak DirectView DR 9000 Digital Radiography system, Kodak DirectView Diagnostic Workstations and a Kodak 3600 Distributed Medical Imager for producing hardcopies of medical imaging exams.
Kodak is also operating the Kodak Image Center to support accredited photojournalists covering the 2002 Winter Games.
About Kodak’s Dental Business
Kodak’s dental business is a leading participant in infoimaging, a $225 billion industry created by the convergence of image-and-information technology. The business develops, manufactures and markets imaging capture and output solutions for dental practitioners, including intraoral and extraoral dental imaging films and processing chemistry; medical inkjet printers, inks and papers; 35mm photographic films, digital cameras, printers and accessories for dental applications; Cook-Waite brand local anesthetics; and a variety of related products and services. Infoimaging unites three closely related imaging markets that enable people to more easily take and share images as information: devices, such as digital cameras and medical inkjet printers; infrastructure, such as networks; and services and media, such as medical grade inkjet paper.
For more information about Kodak’s dental business call 800-933-8031 or visit Kodak’s Health Imaging Dental Products Group website at www.kodak.com/go/dental . For technical questions about any Kodak dental product, you can also call (U.S.) 800-933-8031 or your regional Kodak products representative.
(Note: Kodak, InSight, Ektavision, Readymatic, DirectView and Cook-Waite are trademarks of Eastman Kodak Company.)