Prakash Lokhande

Transillumination as a Clinical Light Detector: A Critical Narrative Review of Optical Principles, Diagnostic Performance and Methodological Constraints

Sanjana Bhat, R. S. Basavanna, N. M. Dhanyakumar & Prakash Lokhande · International Journal of Research and Reports in Dentistry · 2026

Transillumination places a light source on one side of a tissue and observes the light that survives passage to the opposite side, so that internal structure is inferred from patterns of attenuation. The technique is old, inexpensive and technically undemanding, and it has been r...