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Chris Felix
Chief Scientist
Chris leads the science at Bluelight Analytics: the measurement methods behind the MARC platform, the company's laboratory testing practice, and the review of every standards-related claim Bluelight publishes.
A co-founder of the company, Chris is a chemist by training and a long-time dental materials expert.
He is a co-author of the 2015 Dental Materials study that validated CheckMARC against a benchtop integrating sphere, part of the published record indexed on our research page.
Writing
Articles by Chris.
- Research · 2026-09
The measurement bar just rose
A new edition of the curing-light standard and a final FDA guidance arrived within three months of each other. Read together, they say one thing: the number on the label must trace to measurement.
- Research · 2026-08
The two standards that shape every cure
One document governs the curing light. Another governs the material it cures. Every light-cured restoration depends on both, and they meet at a number almost nobody measures.
- Research · 2026-08
There is exactly one standard for dental curing lights
Most dental devices sit inside a thicket of overlapping standards. Curing lights are unusual, and the single document that governs them was quietly revised this summer.
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