One clinician’s view of the A-dec 500 Chair System with the EA-52 LED electric motor handpiece. I love A-dec’s equipment because I have everything I need at my fingertips without having to have messy cables and cords from all of the various instruments we require. I can’t tell you how easy it is to use and how happy I am to make the most of my equipment. Just because you buy it doesn’t mean you’ll use it. If it’s too clunky, time consuming or hard to maintain, you stop using it. I definitely use what I purchased (from A-dec)because it’s so easy to use. I started using the product when I opened my office in March of 2008. I wanted to create an efficient, state-of-the-art facility in which staff and patients could appreciate our services and the methods and equipment that help us achieve this goal. I thought this product met that criteria. I know there is a difference in my delivery of care and I can confidently tell patients that I can treat them more comfortably, quickly and with better accuracy.
Incorporating the product was easy because I built the office new. A-dec allowed me to configure whatever I wanted in my delivery system to meet the needs of different rooms. When changes have to be made, it’s pretty easy to rearrange the position and settings of the whole operatory equipment set up. I have multiple hygienists and doctors working at our office and all of them found the systems to work for them. Efficiency is really important when you are trying to keep the price of doing dentistry low for everyone. The chairs are soft, quiet and beautiful. The delivery system is easy to clean, adaptive to patient and provider. The handpiece is quiet, provides incredible visualization and consistently preps teeth at the desired setting. Although this equipment may cost more initially, it makes our jobs easier. Electric LED handpieces can prep teeth faster than air-driven counterparts and they really don’t sound as whiny, either. Our patients and our staff frequently tell me how much better our office looks and feels compared to their previous office.
I think they can tell that, by making their experience more comfortable, we care about them. I would definitely recommend the product to others because you can’t beat the comfort and efficiency that it provides. How the A-dec 500 Chair System with the EA-52 LED electric motor handpiece can make your practice more efficientDental equipment peanut butter meets its chocolate.Often in dentistry, we don’t find what we need right away. While we love the “have your cake and eat it too” philosophy, it is often hard to find that perfect combination of dental equipment. Because of that, dentists are notorious for tinkering with their equipment, attaching all sorts of items to existing poles or countertops. While this is good from a functional standpoint, it often leaves the treatment room looking a little cluttered. It can also sometimes have implications on a product’s warranty.A-dec has always maintained a quality line of products, as well as choices among those lines. For their dental patient chairs alone, you have four product lines with twenty-five different colors of upholstery to choose.
The problem is that there has not been as much latitude when it came to the systems as a whole. Knowing dentists like to customize their working space, A-dec recently switched things up. If you opt for their “Cadillac” of dental chairs, the A-dec 500 series, you can now swap out the standard A-dec 500 delivery system for the smaller, lighter A-dec 300 delivery system without losing much in the way of integration.The A-dec 500 series dental chair is one of those chairs that needs to be sat in to truly appreciate. With dental chairs, it’s important to strike a balance between how much cushion is there, with how much support you get. For example, too much cushion, and you risk losing back support. Too little cushion, and the patient feels like they are laying on a piece of plywood. Plus, when a chair is thick with upholstery and padding, smaller statured doctors often have to hunch their shoulders to work on the patient. The A-dec 500 dental chair has been developed with pressure mapping technology, creating balanced support for the patient.
This creates a comfortable, relaxed position for your patients, which in turn makes for easier patients to work on. This all happens while keeping the back of the chair super thin - providing you great access to your patient. You can pretty much move anywhere around the patient with a back that is less than 1 inch in some areas.Another feature geared toward patient comfort is the movement of the chair itself. The hydraulics allow for a soft start and a soft stop when moving the patient, eliminating any jerky motion. Patients are afraid enough without startling them every time the chair moves. The chair back also has a virtual pivot at the waist area, allowing your patient not to have to adjust their position just because you changed the incline of the chair.The A-dec 300 delivery system may not be as full-featured as its A-dec 500 big brother, but you are hardly sacrificing to go smaller, lighter, and less expensive. Looking over the features, this delivery system is like having a Ferrari engine stuffed inside a Mini Cooper.
There is still a single spot for an air water syringe, and an additional four spots for other devices. You can connect air driven high speed handpieces, electric handpieces, intraoral cameras, ultrasonic scalers, or even a curing light. With all that functionality integrated, it creates extreme versatility in your operatory, allowing you to do just about any procedure in that same room.The A-dec 300 delivery system also allows diversity in the position around the chair itself. You can get it configured to swing all the way to the right or left depending on the preference of the operator. You can even mount it to a post depending on the configuration of your treatment room. The touchpad is easy to use, and can be configured with a deluxe display for torque and RPM feedback if you are setting the room up for endodontics.Because the A-dec 300 is so streamlined, it really works well in smaller rooms. If you are of smaller stature, it’s also a bit easier to move around compared to the 500 series.