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I hope that readers enjoyed the excellent Dental Materials special issue, which included a comprehensive assessment of light curing by Steve Bonsor and Will Palin.1 They recommended that ‘members of the dental team using dental LCUs be aware of the potential damage to eyesight that these devices may present’. As a previous detached retina patient (which the surgeon suggested might be caused by me having looked at too many blue curing lights in the early days of research on the topic), I took their warnings on board. Another recent article on the subject2 has also spelt out the risks on the potential hazards of using dental light curing units (LCUs), so it may be appropriate to add what that stated, given that a further article3 suggested that there may be considerable variations on dentists' safety awareness with regard to dental LCUs.
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