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Advanced medical and
dental equipment at the 2012
20 Ice Hockey World Championship in Helsinki

Planmeca Group participated
last May in the Ice Hockey World Championship
by providing a Planmed Verity® Extremity Scanner
and a Planmeca CompactTM i dental care unit for

the on-site emergency room at Helsinki Arena.

At the Arena, the Planmeca Compact™ i root canal treatment. Sometimes a player
dental unit helped in diagnosing dental can even lose a tooth or crack his jaw”, Salmi
injuries and giving first-aid treatment. says. In the May championships, however,
no serious cases were recorded thanks to
“The unit functioned very well regardless good-quality mouth guards and strict referee
of the ‘field operation’ surroundings – no work. The most typical cases included dental
water or compressed air – at the stadium. fillings and repairing chipped teeth. “This
A separate pressurised water container was the first time a dental care station was
and a mobile air-compressor were installed brought into the ice-hockey hall. The new
to overcome this challenge. In addition concept was appreciated both by the players
to the dental unit, Planmeca delivered and the organisation of the International Ice
an intraoral imaging system that completed Hockey Federation.”
the high-quality dental emergency care
settings”, explains Mr Otso Salmi, Head The dedicated Planmed Verity® 3D
Dentist at the competition. extremity scanner was used at the arena by
Dr. Markku Tuominen, Head Physician
“The most common dental injuries in ice- for the Finnish National Ice Hockey Team,
hockey are enamel-dentine fractures. In some together with his medical team.
cases the tooth can break so that it requires