March The Dental Equipment & Dental Office Blog Archives

New from 3M: The Pentamix 3

Most dental offices are familiar with the Pentamix 2 mixing machine. It is a wonderful time saver in a dental office, allowing almost any material to be mixed and dispensed into a tray with the simple push of a button. The large size of the cartridges means that you don’t need to be fiddling with [...]

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Duplicate Equipment in the Mechanical Room

Many dental offices wisely choose to purchase mechanical room equipment, such as compressors and suction machines, with dual heads. The theory behind this is when one compressor head or vacuum motor fails, the other motor has enough power to keep the office running while waiting for service or parts. It’s a great idea, but for [...]

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Cleaning & disinfecting computer equipment in a dental office

As computers become more common in the dental operatory, issues concerning the cleaning and disinfecting of computer equipment are becoming more prevalent. Hospitals have been dealing with these issues for some time, and they have great, albeit expensive methods for dealing with them.
One example is that hospital monitors are often designed to be disinfected, and [...]

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