A dental practice contains cabinetry in just about every room. Careful design is required to ensure both maximum utility, maximum function and maximum design appeal.  Let’s address them here.

Dental Surgeries – there are the surgeries which all need to be tailored to the manner in which the dentist works – or how the principle dentist wants to work.  Design encompasses some of the following questions:

• Are you left handed or right handed?
• Do you work at 12 o’clock or 10 o’clock or at the 2 o’clock position?
• Do you prefer instruments passed behind the patient or across the patient?
• What is each surgery’s primary use – General dental / Surgical / Hygiene and Oral Health / Sleep?
• What chair do you want to use?  This affects the position of not only the dental chair connection points but also the position of the correct cabinetry to be in the right place for your DA to easily reach, to not get cramped and to provide an excellent workspace.
• Who will be using the computer?  Do you do the notes and charting or does your DA?  For that matter, where should the PC be located and where do you want your monitors and how do you want to use them with patient interaction?

All this requires an experienced designer who understands your requirements. The materials cost the same, we don’t charge for our design work during the build, so why would you try and go straight to a cabinet maker who may have built a few dental surgery cabinets for someone else and thinks they understand the complexities of your work?

Sterilisation – we have done infection control courses and have actually worked in steri!  We have performed the utltrasonic testing, we have run all the preliminary and continued autoclave cycles, we processed instruments and we have tracked them through the systems.  We understand general vs medical waste and we understand your storage needs.  

Sterilisation cabinetry isn’t about blocks of pretty cabinetry, it about understanding the process and ensuring within the space provided that you have a well functioning and flowing infection control and instrument processing room.  Of course, pretty cabinetry is always a bonus!

Laboratories – Oh how this area has changed in the last few years.  Gone, hopefully in your new practice, is the grinder, plaster trap and mess.  We understand how much space you require and this will of course depend on what you intend to do in your lab as follows:

If you have an intra-oral scanner, will you be printing your own models now because if you aren’t, you most certainly will be.  Then you’ll need a curing station as well as a washing station.  Once you’ve got all of this, you won’t want to be buying your aligners, retainers and mouth-guards from lab’s or overseas suppliers.  You’ll be doing them in-house and saving a fortune.  So, you’ll need a space for your new aligner creator (getting away from brands, let’s just call it an updated suck-down although they are so much better now!).  We understand these processes and the complexities.  Then you do need somewhere to trim the aligners and work on them.  Yes, believe it or not, we’ve done this too!  How about a milling machine which is the next step and these are becoming more affordable now?

All this equipment needs not only the right space, but the right connection points, pluming air and water and electrical to work effectively.  There is noise to consider as well and how that is going to transfer through your practice.

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