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The Dentaid Portable Dental Chair

Dentaid has designed and created a portable dental chair that can be used in the field in remote overseas rural communities. In order to carry out safe and effective dental treatment it is necessary to have an appropriate dental chair that is suited to the requirements of both the patient and the dentist. Carrying out dental treatment over a long period is difficult for dentists to work without a suitable chair. They are liable to headaches, back and neck problems if they operate over benches and normal chairs.

 		 The portable chair is ideal to be used in conjunction with the Instrument modules recently introduced by Dentaid. These portable kits consist of basic instruments to be used to carry out extractions and simple dental treatments in rural areas. The introduction of the portable chair makes the range in which these treatments can be carried out even wider. Oral health care workers will not be tied to a building but can perform the treatment literally anywhere. The chair will be easily collapsible and easy to transport by car, boat or plane. 

Existing portable chairs can cost as much as $2,000 which naturally prohibits their widespread use particularly for non - profit organisations. The Dentaid chair is produced with advice from several dentists who have aided in ensuring that the design is most suited to the performance of the dentist and the comfort of the patient alike. 

 

 		 The development of a low cost portable and easy to use dental chair for community oral health programmes supports the existing work that Dentaid is doing to provide improved dental care in remote areas which previously did not have access to any oral health care. Dentaid has so far attracted funding for this project from the Rotary Club of Romsey Test to help finance the design stage of the chair and they will also assist with some funding for future chairs. 

So far 49 portable chairs have been sent to a variety of destinations. Below is an example of just one project where the chairs have been used.

 

Portable dental chairs ready for shipping to Cambodia

Click here to see what happened to them 

Click here for a downloadable leaflet which includes approximate sponsorship costs 

For further information about the Dentaid Portable Dental Chair and Instrument Kits, please contact info@dentaid.org or call 01794 325142.

 

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