Dental Chair Instructions

Before seating your first patient, familiarize yourself with the features and controls of the dental chair. Refer to the helpful diagrams on the booklet you received during training. Ensure all foot control devices for the chair are off the seat and rubber pad.


Headrest

Height of headrest can be adjusted simply by pulling it up or down. Angle can be changed simply by squeezing together the black bars on either side of the headrest: release the bars when you have found the desired position. Use headrest covers for all patients.


Automatic Foot Control

Use the foot pedal control and not the switches on the side of the chair. In this way, you limit touching items and cross contamination. Whenever you want to adjust the patient’s position, warn them in advance.


Command “P” or Preset

This automatically places the patient in a reclined position; the chair slowly rises and tips backwards.


Command “A” or Auto-Return

This returns the chair to the upright position.

NOTE: Automatic motion (“A” or “P”)

This can be stopped/cancelled at any time by pressing any control switch on the foot control.

Rheostat (Foot Control)

The gray or black foot-operated toggle switch on the Rheostat is a feature designed to flush out the water line (rationale: infection control). When the water is ON the toggle will be towards the BLUE indicator DOT located on the Rheostat.

Ensure Unit is “ON” Prior to Treating your Patient.


Control /Bracket Tray

(A) Master ON/OFF orange Indicator
(B) Coolant Water ON/OFF blue Indicator
(C) Handpiece Pressure Gauge
(D) Slow Speed Handpiece with Manual Lockout (ON/OFF Switch)
(E) High Speed Handpiece “ “ “ ““
(F) Arm Brake ON/OFF Toggle Switch
IMPORTANT: Do not force the tray up and down without releasing the brake. Once the brake is released, you can find the desired height and secure the bracket tray by flicking the switch again.
(G) Master ON/OFF Switch
(H) Coolant Water Flow Adjustment Control


Cuspidor and Patient Rinse

The bowl flush button activates a timed rinse of the bowl. It shuts off automatically. The cup filler push button fills the patient’s cup to capacity and shuts off automatically.

NOTE: Fill the cup in the patient’s presence.

Clean bowl thoroughly between each and every patient. (Saliva, blood residue, disclosing solution, etc.) Use disinfectant in bowl and activate timed rinse several times to wash clean.

Every patient gets a new clean cup. Fill the cup in the patient's presence to assure that the patient that the cup is fresh and new.


Electrical Outlets

Two outlets are located on the opposite side of the cuspidor.


Problems/Malfunction

Report all problems immediately to the staff at the Sterilization window. Then write out the problem on the clipboards provided on each floor.

If you have any questions about any of the information presented here, please contact the Dental Equipment Repair Department at 8-4797 and leave a voicemail with a number you can be reached and a staff member will call you back to answer your questions.

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