HOW TO DESIGN FOR YOUR WORKFLOW WITH DENTAL CABINETS

The ergonomics and workflow of the dental surgery are crucial in helping maintain a safe, efficient workspace – one that also give the patient confidence and comfort. Choosing the right design and combination of dental cabinets is a big part of designing the right dental surgery space. 

?The Aesthetics of Calm

Whereas dental surgeries are, ultimately, supremely functional spaces, focussed on delivering dental treatments, they must also combine practicality with an outward-facing sense of ordered calm.

This is for two key reasons: one is to ensure that dental professionals on-site can work efficiently and unhindered, knowing that everything has a place, and is in its place; the second reason is no less important, which is to instil a sense of calmness and confidence in the patients who visit the space for treatment.

“You should always design your dental surgery with the patient in mind, along with the practical requirements of treatment,” advises Pete Higson of RPA Dental.

It therefore makes sense to limit the visibility of treatment equipment. This includes x-ray and other equipment. Modern, modular equipment design has helped soften the image of dental equipment, but its manoeuvrability means you can also have it out of the patient’s line of sight until you need to use it.

You also should be reducing risk by ensuring that you use well-placed dental cabinets to store things away where you can still easily access them; and to have them isolated from the possibility of cross-infection.

Modular Cabinet Solutions

For dental surgeries, there is a sense that dental cabinets have come full circle: from rigid designs and structures to minimalist spaces and now back to a recognised need for effective cabinet storage.

“The modern solution takes the classic dental cabinet design into account but makes it more flexible, and adaptable to a range of situations and sites,’ Paul Higson remarks.

Tavom’s cabinets, for example, offer innovation while retaining the essential function of the dental cabinet, meaning you can have the adaptability of a custom-made piece of dental furniture, but from a modular solution. Its Skyline design can be either free-standing or wall-mounted, and comes with soft closing doors and drawers.

The Tavom Alnair Mito range keeps an inherently stylish feel but keeps things simple and accessible, providing excellent hygiene management and integrated elements including sinks, drawers and worktops.

Dental cabinets come in a range of colours too, so you’re not restricted to a clinical white. At the same time, they are easy to keep clean and maintain. And their modular design means you can add-to or adapt at any time.

Your cabinets are both practical and an essential element in the environment of your dental practice. They should work for you but also help enhance your space, to provide a durable, elegant and appropriate solution to storage and practical work demands. You should not have to design your space around dental cabinets, but rather with them.