Dental Surgery Products That Will Benefit Every Practice
Dentistry has undergone remarkable progress, moving beyond outdated practices and embracing modern innovations. New dental surgery products are transforming the lives of dentists and their patients. Innovative dental surgery equipment has opened up new treatment options that were not previously possible or had uncertain outcomes.
Medieval dentistry was limited to extractions accompanied by uncontrolled pain and profuse bleeding. The first significant advances in dentistry only occurred during the 18th century. While innovations like anaesthesia, electric drills and X-rays have all had a positive impact, it is the remarkable developments achieved during the late 20th century and beyond that have proved most transformative.
Today, the designers of modern dental equipment strive to achieve more than just tools to tackle a given job. Instead, they aim to combine ease of use with patient and practitioner comfort and enhanced functionality. Ample evidence of their success can be seen in elegant, ergonomically designed dental chairs crafted by A-dec and Belmont and available from Hague Dental Supplies. Together with efficient handpieces, these are among the most fundamental dental surgery supplies.
However, the digital age has enabled more than smartphones and streaming on wafer-thin TVs. It has also led to several outstanding technological advances in dental surgery equipment. Let’s look more closely at the conventional and digital equipment available to dentists in the twenty-first century:
Some must-have dental surgery products
First, the basics:
- Dental chairs: The leading products in this category are designed to optimise ease of access for the dentist and the patient’s comfort. They allow extensive manual and automated adjustments and synchronisation with other dental equipment. They are durable, require minimal maintenance and are aesthetically pleasing.
- Handpieces: Modern straight and contra-angle handpieces may feature a compact glass rod to better illuminate the treatment area and offer rapid bur changes to save time. They are durable, disinfectable, sterilisable, and compatible with thermo washers.
- Miscellaneous dental supplies: These include air purifiers, stools, microscopes and other optical instruments, delivery systems, ultrasonic scalers, autoclaves and more.
Now, for the digital devices, many of which offer improved diagnostic capabilities, The following are just three:
- Intraoral cameras: These compact handheld devices provide affordable chairside imaging, capturing clear video and images of fillings, hairline fractures, plaque and other dental problems in real-time and cause patients no discomfort.
- X-ray imaging scanners: These devices are invaluable to a busy dental practice. They eliminate the need to convert existing film-based images to digital format, making it quicker and easier for practices to go paperless.
- Intraoral scanners: This application of digital technology has been hailed as the future of dentistry. They provide rapid, high-resolution images that can be processed by CAD/CAM software to create detailed 3-dimensional models of a patient’s dentition and other features of the oral cavity. When transmitted to a milling machine, output from the 3D model provides the data to create accurate same-day ceramic restorations, like crowns, veneers and bridgework at the chairside.
Sourcing quality dental surgery products
All of the above and more are available from Hague Dental Supplies and backed by our trained and experienced dental engineers, guaranteeing expert maintenance and repairs if required. We are one of the few companies offering both Belmont and A-dec dental equipment. Contact us to learn more about the latest dental surgery products.
