A small, lightweight, high intensity illumination assembly for use in
dental and medical applications. The illumination assembly includes
attachment means for removable attachment to headgear such as eyeglasses,
face shields, or headbands, and lenses, loupes, and binoculars associated
with such headgear. The illumination assembly is able to achieve
extremely light weight by using only a single optical element therein,
e.g., an aspheric condensing lens, binary optical element, or holographic
optical means, and by piping illumination to the optical element from a
remote light source by use of a flexible light guide, e.g., a fiberoptic
bundle.