Patients trust you.
Can you trust your curing light?
Bluelight CheckUp makes it easy to monitor your lights and get better results from your restorations.
Bluelight and 3M Oral Care share a common mission - to help dentists improve the outcomes of their restorative dental procedures. That's why we're working together to promote the use of Bluelight CheckUp. Read more →
50 minutes work
undone in 15 seconds
What if you were the world’s best baker, but your oven secretly wasn’t heating past 100 degrees?
Dental restorations are a complex art and your best efforts can be quickly undone by the few seconds you rely on your curing light.
Under-cure and you risk debonding, fracture, and discolouration. Cure too long and you risk post-op sensitivity. Both will impact your patients and practice.
You can’t tell if a light is working correctly or if a composite is cured just by looking at it, so you need to find another way.
Get better results from restorations with CheckUp
The Bluelight CheckUp Radiometer makes it easy to monitor the health of your curing lights and uncover the risks hidden in your curing protocol.
Combined with the Bluelight Analytics app, CheckUp provides dentists with personalized insights and precise curing times for any combination of lights and materials.
The result? Predictable curing and painless, perfectly executed restorations.
Getting started with Bluelight CheckUp is easy
Set up CheckUp
Download the CheckUp app, create your account, and pair your phone or tablet with the Bluelight CheckUp Radiometer.
Test your lights
Input your light models and materials and start testing your lights. Review your test results and calculated curing times.
Inform protocols
Use your personalized insights to optimize your curing protocol and achieve better patient outcomes.
Get a free curing light evaluation
Get a taste for how our curing insights could impact your dental practice. Request a free, in-person light evaluation, provided in partnership with 3M.
Features designed for dentists
Light and material
IFU library
Smart
Radiometer
Mobile and web views
of curing times
In-app support
and education
Match your lights
and materials
Engage your team
in best practices
Technology behind our smart radiometer
Our smart radiometer uses artificial intelligence in combination with our extensive database of light curing data to inform your results. That enables it to measure all major curing lights with accuracy and calculate optimal curing times for any combination of light and material.
Unlike other radiometers, CheckUp can measure different light modes like ramp and pulse, and accounts for active diameter, wavelength, and saturation for maximum accuracy. Combined with our Bluelight CheckUp software and app, this is the most powerful and smartest radiometer available for use every day by dentists.
“There is a need for more accurate dental radiometers that could be realized with the novel light measurement device CheckUp.”
Palin, Hadis & Shortall, 2019
Effect of Light Tip Optical Design on Dental Radiometer Accuracy
“CheckUp was a game changer in my office as I was routinely overcuring my composites and risking plural injury. Now I am able to modify my curing times so that they more accurately match the materials in use.”
Dr. Martin Jablow, DMD
Learn more about light testing and curing
Download our best practice guide to monitoring curing light performance.
Frequently asked questions
› How often should I test my curing lights?
We recommend testing as often as you can, but most dentists find testing weekly to be sufficient. The real question is, how many restorations do you want to put at risk?
Let’s say your light is responsible for curing eight restorations per day and you test it every Monday. One week, something happens to your light on Tuesday morning, which cuts its output in half. If you don’t test again until the following Monday, over 30 restorations could be at risk. The longer you go between tests, the higher that number gets.
› Is CheckUp compatible with all curing lights?
CheckUp is able to measure all major curing light models – over 600 in total. We’re constantly expanding our database of lights too. When a new curing light hits the market, we test it thoroughly before adding it to CheckUp. Learn more about this process by reading how we added the PinkWave curing light to CheckUp.
› Is there a limit to how many lights I can test with CheckUp?
No. You can add all of your lights to the CheckUp app and test them as often as you want.
› Are new lights and materials added to CheckUp as they’re released?
We aim to add all new curing lights and materials to the CheckUp app within 3 months of their release. There are a few factors that can delay this. For instance, if there is insufficient documentation from a manufacturer, or if clarification is required on a manufacturer’s instructions for use. Extra testing may also be required for newer technologies (e.g. PinkWave).
If you find a light or material that is not in CheckUp, you can reach out to our support team, and we’ll do our best to add it to the app as quickly as possible.
› What will CheckUp’s analytics tell me?
CheckUp is much more than a light testing tool. It provides you with exact curing times based on your real-time light output and material requirements. These insights give you renewed confidence in your curing light, every time you test, and ensure you’re using the most efficient combination of lights and materials. As it guides you towards best practices in light curing, CheckUp will improve both the quality of your work, and your patient experience.
Want to get a taste for these insights? Check out our curing time calculator and compare your current curing protocol to what’s recommended by the manufacturer of your lights and materials.
“The American and Canadian Dental Associations recommend regular testing of curing lights. It might seem time-consuming or burdensome, but that investment can mitigate redoing a restoration, or ten restorations.”
Chris Felix
Chief Scientist, Bluelight