It has long been overlooked by dentists the importance of monitoring the vital signs of patients while they are on the dental chair. The reason for this is because those that go to their dentist have various health issues including cardiac as well as respiratory conditions that could be triggered during the procedure. Thus it is important to have a way of measuring the vital signs of these individuals in order to make sure that they are functioning properly. The best way to do this is through the use of a pulse oximeter. A pulse
oximeter is a health and medical device that has been used for decades as the premiere medical device to measure the vital signs of individuals. Through the advent of new technology the device has completely changed and in essence has become significantly smaller and completely portable. In addition, the cost of making the product has decreased dramatically as well thus allowing easier access to everyone. The way that a dentist would actually use the pulse oximeter would be to have the patient simply place their finger inside the device and then within seconds there would be a reading of the pulse rate and the oxygen levels of the person. The best feature of the product is the fact that should the readings fall to abnormal levels then what happens is that an alarm will sound that alerts the health care professionals that there is something wrong as the readings have fallen to abnormal levels. Throughout the past couple of years many dental practices have turned to using the pulse oximeter for monitoring patients. There have even been talks by the regulatory bodies as to requiring the use of this because it is such a critical device to simply make sure the person on the dental chair is at normal healthy levels during the procedure.
