Saturday, June 20, 2009 — LOS ANGELES — Seeing the probes, tubes, needles, and drills dentists use and hearing the drilling, scraping, and gurgling that come with even routine checkups can keep the hardiest individuals away from the dentist. However, at Dr. Neda Naim’s West Los Angeles dental office, patients don’t have to see, or hear, any of the treatment. Rather, thanks to audiovisual (A/V) i-glasses, patients can watch movies or television while in the dentist chair.
Manufactured by i-O Display Systems, Inc., i-glasses are head-mounted display video glasses that stream HD quality media. According to i-O Display Systems, two individual LCD screens offer crystal clear images to each eye for quality video viewing on a virtual theater screen equivalent to a 70-inch picture viewed from a distance of 13 feet. Also, the built-in stereo headphones allow patients to tune out treatment.

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