Possibilities:

• Smaller operatory size

• Patients less threatened by hand-pieces in their visual/personal space than with over the patient delivery method

• Cost effective to equip

• Space available for audio Visual and digital dentistry equipment

• 12 and 6 O’clock Monitors

• Wire, wireless mouse and patient head phones

Limitation:

• Disinfection of treatment space is labor intensive

• Dentist and assistant must work with > 180 degree range of motion

• Assistant trapped in room during procedure

• Right / Left convertibility poor

• Dentist and assistant cannot reach all supplies

• Audio, Visual and Digital dentistry equipment cannot be easily deployed

• Room must be heavily stocked for efficiency

Comment:

The dentist retrieves the hand-pieces and the assistants cannot reach them, productivity is often compromised. There is an emerging concern with side delivery.