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After 34 years, a lamp retires – the story of a faithful companion
In December 1987, the prospective dentist Boris Piller sits in his student room in Frankfurt am Main and opens the city map. He is looking for the location where his fellow students have prepared an exam party. Suddenly a June bug lands on the map. The student is amazed by this visit in the middle of winter – 34 years later, the dentist knows: “that was a lucky charm.” Because on that evening in the winter of 1987, he hit the jackpot.
The students of Frankfurt’s Goethe University had organised a raffle at the exam celebration. Kulzer provided the first prize with the Translux CL. “It was a really great device,” the dentist still enthuses today. That evening, Boris Piller paid little attention to the raffle ticket in his pocket. It was only when fellow students asked him what number he had that he glanced at it: “I had won the first prize,” says Dr Boris Piller. From that day on, the Translux CL became a loyal companion and part of his initial equipment in his own practice in Dortmund, which he opened in 1990 after his two-year residency and doctorate in Düsseldorf. The lamp from Kulzer has remained loyal to him until 2021.
A hard farewell
After 34 years of daily use and good care – including regular checks of the light output of the unit with replacement of the bulb as needed – it is with a heavy heart that he now says goodbye to the Translux CL. “It has served me so faithfully over the years, I'm really sad to part with it,” the 68-year-old reveals and calculates how many composite fillings he has probably cured with the lamp since 1990, “it must have been several tens of thousands.” When he hands over the lamp to the sales representative Sigrid Meintrup, she is quite surprised: “I was amazed that this device has been in use for so long, that's almost a whole practice life.”
And indeed, Dr Boris Piller could have said goodbye to practice life three years ago and retired with his Translux lamp, but that is still not on his mind today. Although he handed over his practice in 2018, he still works there as an employed dentist. For him, the profession is a vocation – “I simply want to continue because the work gives me great pleasure and I am curious to see what else is coming.” New in his daily routine for a few weeks now is the Translux Wave LED polymerisation device, which replaces the old Translux CL in the practice. For the dentist, there was no question that the device would come from Kulzer: “After my experience with the Translux CL, it was clear that I would use a device from Kulzer again.”
The Translux today
Translux Wave is a LED curing light for the polymerisation of light curing dental materials such as adhesives and filling materials. It is developed to consistently produce high-quality and safe restorations with an optimum polymerisation depth in the 440 – 480 nm wavelength range.
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