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UPDATING YOUR OFFICE: 5 easy tips

  • Change the color of your disposables: Green and White cups and bibs are boring. Update your office with some color. A bib color like yellow can stimulate patient's in positive ways.
  • Change your tubing: While changing the color of your disposables is small way of adding color, changing your tubing color will really make a statement. Delivery (asepsis) tubing comes in a multitude of colors and can really look cool. Just remember to stick with one color.
  • Reupholster old chairs. For under 600 dollars a chair you can make your equipment look like new. Add a massager and show patients you care about their comfort.
  • Gadgets look cool and work great. Stick an eBite from Sota into a patient's mouth to improve your practice's image and eliminate dark spots in the mouth.
  • Go digital: for the price of a laptop and a digital kit you can be filmless in a day. Going digital is EASY and FAST.
    • We created this blog to inform our customers on how to repair or prevent small dental office equipment problems.
     
    MARKETING YOUR OFFICE: 3 ways to maximize your marketing efforts
    • Sell comfort 1st and services 2nd. Comfort is king! On your site, in your newsletter, and mailings remember to sell your office's points of comfort. A friendly staff, plush seating areas & dental chairs, and chair massagers should be a clear message to your patients.
    • Remember the human touch. Friendly reminders, written or signed by the Dr. is important. A little note on their reminder cards can go a long way.
    • Be a social networking monster. The more fans your Dr. has on facebook = a large pressence. Your website is great but facebook it better.

BUYING A PRACTICE? What you need to know about the equipment inside

  • A second opinion: Ask your favorite service guy to evaluate the dental equipment in the new office. He can help you determine
    what it's worth to you.
  • Ask for equipment serial numbers. Serial numbers can give you a lot of information that includes: date manufactured,
    warranty information, and if parts still available for the equipment
  • Are the cabinets made for dental? Dental cabinets are serialized and worth more money. Dental cabinets also have a lot of
    features made for dental procedures.
 
6/14/2010
Is your light or unit drifting?  Having a level floor is important.  Check pole with a level and save yourself a service call
 
 
6/9/2010
Keep your processor rolls clean. Try to clean them once or twice a week. Look for silver or greyness on the rollers. 
 
 
12/21/2009
Do you have low pressure on your sterilizer or is it not heating up very fast? Change your gasket! you can find the gasket you need at www.discountdentalparts.com
 
12/14/2009
Maintaining your Compressor
There are two types of compressors: oiless and lubricated. I will break them both down for all readers.
Oiless compressors are very low maintainence. Manufactures suggest you change you filter once a year. However, depending on your machine manufacturers suggestions vary. Some compressors have intake filters, moisture seperaters, and biological filters.

Lubricated Compressors:

Monthly Maintenance-

Manufactures suggest you check oil levels once a month.

Yearly you should replace-

Ultra-air coalescing Filter element and O-ring

Oil (on lubricated model)

Fresh Air Intake Filter (s)

I hope this was helpful!
 
12/10/2009
Preventative Maintenance for Your Processor
NORMAL MONTHLY MAINTENCE FOR PROCESSORS

Turn power switch OFF, thoroughly clean the processor racks by using some type of fixer rack and developer rack cleaning solutions. We recommend Sigma Cleaning solutions. Drain solutions from the trays. Remove, rinse and scrub trays.
Units with auto replenishment ONLY: Rinse replenisher tanks and fill halfway with warm water. Flush pumps with
warm water by turning the control box off, waiting ten seconds and turning back on. Repeat several times and let
the pumps draw air by removing the hose from the tanks. Leave on until the water is purged from the pump.
Discard excess water from the replenisher tanks and then re-install the tanks.
Refill the tanks with fresh chemistry.
Remove the dryer rack assembly and clean in the same manner as the other racks.
Lubricate the main drive assembly as indicated in the manual.
To resume operations, turn power switch ON.