Iranian Experts Produce Portable Dental Unit for Use in Remote Areas
“The integrated portable dental unit (suitcase and chair) is the result of 30 years of field and laboratory research which saves time, money and energy and has a significant effect on improving the general health of societies,” said Mohammad Reza Dor Ali, the managing director of the knowledge-based company.
He elaborated on the features of the product, saying that weight bearing and maintaining balance up to 250 kg, usability without the need for any urban possibilities like water, electricity, sewage, etc., occupation of merely a travel suitcase, the ability to operate in harsh and different climatic conditions like the sea, desert, etc., providing electricity with a car battery, small generator, solar panel, etc., offering different positions for the patient and the dentist, and long-term work are among the features of the mobile dental suitcase and chair.
Dor Ali noted that the product is in compliance with all health and safety principles, weighs 30 kg and is very small that can be easily carried in the trunk of a car as a travel luggage, adding that advanced possibilities for more specialized treatments can be installed on this device and it consumes little amount of water and energy.
In a relevant development last year, Iranian researchers at a technological company had also managed to make a prototype of a device to restore the tooth root canal.
“The device is a new and advanced tool for restoration and preparation of the tooth root canal,” said Hamid Behzad, the managing director of the company.
He explained that manual files or non-automatic devices were used in the past to prepare the root canal, adding that the dentist's lack of control over the movements of the device sometimes led to the file breaking inside the tooth.
“But with the help of this device, the root canal of the tooth can be removed without any defects,” Behzad said, adding that the product is similar to the foreign samples and does not have any domestic counterpart.
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