What are aerosol particles?
Aerosol particles are an airborne mixture of solid and liquid particles emitted by various dental tools such as fast and slow dental handpieces, air-water syringes, and ultrasonic scalers. Specifically for ultrasonic scalers, they emit 10x more aerosol particles than other dental devices. Ultrasonic scalers break plaque buildups, which add to aerosol particles with infectious blood, tissue, and biohazardous particles that persist in clinical settings for up to three days in dental offices. These particles ultimately cause aerosol transmissible diseases (ATDs) such as tuberculosis, pneumonia, and COVID-19.
About 96% of surveyed dental clinicians share their deepest concern about the unmet clinical need for airborne aerosol particles. About 99% of the same clinicians agree that current solutions of aerosol mitigations are inadequate. Around 80% of clinicians use ultrasonic scalers for at least half of their entire patient base in market opportunities. Over 96% of said clinicians are willing to invest $2000-$4000 of expenditure to implement a solution that can properly address the aerosol emittance problem.