The Dental Equipment & Dental Office Blog

When a piece of equipment in your dental office breaks down, is there a mad scramble to find somebody to repair it right away? Does your office basically close when one compressor head dies? If your Statim quits, do you have another way to sterilize instruments? For far too many offices the answer to these [...]

Does Color Matter whilst choosing dental equipment?
Surprisingly, the answer is yes. Many of you reading this will have noticed that there is a trend towards beige colored dental equipment in the marketplace. This isn’t simply a thoughtless manufacturing decision or decorating trend, although it does have its roots in aesthetics. It is actually a directed [...]

Even with all of the advances in dental hygiene technology; air polishing, ultrasonic scalers, piezo scalers, and patient hygiene, the vast majority of dental hygienists still spend hours each day hand scaling teeth.
This short, repetitive motion causes wrist and joint problems in many hygienists. The best way to minimize this risk is to use instruments [...]

Dentsply’s newest Cavitron has been out on the market for a little while now, and by accounts it has been performing well. The Cavitron Plus by Dentsply International is simply the most advanced ultrasonic scaler on the market today. Most dental offices and all dental hygienists will be familiar with the name Cavitron, however most [...]

Dental Instrument washers are rapidly growing in popularity in dental offices. When they were first introduced a few years ago, many people (including myself) discounted them as another expensive piece of equipment that the dental companies were trying to get their customers to buy. Perception changes with time, and many dentists now consider an instrument [...]

Your service technician is paid to identify and solve problems, minimizing your downtime. No matter how good he or she is, there are steps that you can take to minimize the cost of that service by maximizing their time in your office.

A simple service needed checklist centrally located in your office is one of the [...]

Instrument Management Systems (IMS) are a rapidly growing trend in Dentistry. Dental Instrument Management Systems, which some people simply call cassette systems, or instrument cassette systems change the way you handle, store, set-up, use, clean, and sterilize your instruments; a tall order for a simple acronym. Let’s take a closer look at how they work.
The [...]

Dentsply Professional has an interesting new high speed handpiece on the market under the Midwest brand. Called the Stylus ATC (Adaptive Torque Control), it is being marketed as a hybrid air/electric handpiece.
What does that mean – hybrid air/electric?
Midwest’s marketing material says that the handpiece combines the small size, speed, and light weight of a traditional [...]

Dental Instruments are the tools of trade for a dentist.
The category Dental Instruments covers a wide array of tools in use in a dental office. Often the term is generically applied to hygiene instruments; however, it also includes diagnostic, orthodontic, periodontal, restorative, operative, and even surgical instruments.
Most of the products in this category are long, [...]