Today’s dental chairs and delivery units are precision-engineered medical devices. Inside them you’ll find:
✔ Micro-engineered waterlines
Ultra-fine tubing delivers clean, controlled water to handpieces and ultrasonic scalers. This lets dentists work with millimetre accuracy, cool the tooth surface, and keep the field clear.
✔ High-tech filtration and flow systems
Modern practices often use independent bottle reservoirs, in-line filters, and anti-retraction valves to stop contaminants being sucked back into the system.
✔ Infection-control design
Smooth surfaces, removable components, and autoclavable handpieces are all built around the principle of:
reduce contamination, improve repeatability, protect the patient.
✔ A safer experience than ever
Thanks to HTM 01-05, HTM 04-01, CQC requirements, and advances in materials, the level of protection built into a single dental chair is higher today than at any point in the profession’s history.
In short: on the surface and on paper, it’s all very, very good.