LED Dental's VELscope Vx oral cancer screening system has been approved for use by the dentists affiliated with Heartland Dental Care.
All new and existing Heartland dental practices will have the option of adding the VELscope Vx system upon doctor approval, according to LED Dental.
The system is exclusively distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Henry Schein.
VELscope's fluorescence visualization technology is the first technology to cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Health Canada to help detect cancerous and precancerous lesions that might be invisible to the naked eye, and to help determine the appropriate surgical margin when excision is indicated.
Heartland Dental represents more than 350 dental practices in 18 states.
