Tools and Equipment for Managing Special Care Patients Anywhere - 06/06/16

Doi : 10.1016/j.cden.2016.03.001

Harvey Levy, DMD, MAGD, DABSCD ^a,^b, Lena R. Rotenberg, MS, MEd ^a,^⁎
^a Dr. Harvey Levy & Associates, PC, 198 Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 108, Frederick, MD 21702, USA
^b Department of Surgery, Frederick Memorial Hospital, 400 W 7th Street, Frederick, MD 21701, USA

^∗Corresponding author.

Résumé

This article describes many of the tools and equipment used by dental professionals to successfully treat special care patients in a variety of settings. Such equipment can be used in the dental office, operating room, hospital, surgical center, nursing home, private home, institution, hospice, and even in the field without electricity. Equipment discussed includes seating, laughing gas and sedation systems, body wraps and mouth props, lighting, radiographic exposure and imaging systems, dental isolation devices, and other tools the authors use.

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Keywords : Dental office, Equipment, Operating room, Portable dentistry, Special care dentistry, Special needs patients, Tools, Hospital dentistry

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Disclosure Statement: The main author of this article has personally purchased and tested all the tools and equipment mentioned and chose to include specific brands and models based solely on their effectiveness in his practice. Some manufacturers (DentalEZ, Dental Film SRL, DEXIS, Isolite, KavoKerr Group, Porter Instrument, Septodont, Solutionreach, Specialized Care Inc, Ultralight Optics) will occasionally contribute toward his honoraria for courses and lectures at dental conferences. The coauthor has nothing to disclose.