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Diagnostic log enables efficient daily monitoring of dental Clinic monitoring offers a graphical overview of all connected
unit events, i.e. help messages, as well as reviewing the event devices at the clinic. “The floor plan is a perfect tool to
history. A comprehensive error and help event log provides quickly review the state of all our Planmeca Compact i dental
better understanding of problem situations. units,” explains Mr Allan Iversen, technician at University of
Copenhagen School of Dentistry.
tenance plan. “We no longer base our as- dental units and Planmeca simulation units every day can be exhausting. 25
sumption solely on the user’s description, faced a software upgrade at the beginning This feature is also beneficial in
but on veritable information. We now know of 2010. “This would have required a work
exactly what happened right before the of at least three man-weeks, assuming all teaching clinics. For example in University of
malfunction occurred,” Iversen continues. units were free for the technician to change Copenhagen all dental units at the teaching
the software chip,” tells Mr Mike Torres, clinic were prog rammed with similar settings
Some non-technical problems such as Technical Operations Manager at Planmeca – to provide the dental students with equal
a loose tray or a dripping instrument still USA, Inc. “Now, however, we finished every standings for learning. Basic setting can
require manual logging, as they are not thing in two days – what an unbelievable also be easily applied to groups of dental
recorded in Clinic Edition. All maintenance resource saver!” units for example to prepare an area for
actions can, however, be added manually teaching session.
into Clinic Edition and linked to the related Unlimited number of users
help code for later analysis. Utilising logs for education
Each dental professional has their own pre
Software updates ferred way of working presenting a challenge The unit servicing and preventive main
for clinics where several users share one unit. tenance are features beneficial for all clinics.
Dental unit software updates with new Planmeca Compact Plus package allows When used in teaching environment, the
features and improvements are released monitoring and reports also allow the faculty
regularly to further improve the Planmeca Detailed information is to monitor the students and the way they
equipment. Traditionally, when an update is a key factor for defining work with the unit.
required, the technician opens the servicing the problem and a successful
panel, removes the covers, replaces the chip maintenance plan. Record of patient chair positions gives
and updates the dental unit software – sepa- an idea of working ergonomics and log of
rately for each unit. This takes 5–10 minutes saving four user-specific unit settings – with instrument, water and air use indicate how
per dental unit, in large clinics adding up to a Clinic Edition, there’s no limitation neither efficiently the student can perform. The logs
number of working days. in the number of users nor in the number of also allow the dental hygienists to monitor
stored user settings. Each user can save their cleaning cycles for ensuring that the students
When using Clinic Edition, however, personal settings on Planmeca Romexis, and and the staff take appropriate care of the
the task is much more straightforward and when logging in with their user name, the dental units, resulting in correct and infec
virtually effortless. All units can be updated information is automatically retrieved. This tion control conscious routines for the years
simultaneously, using the remote access, may sound trivial, but defining for example to come.
available through the network; simple, quick, the preferred chair positions repeatedly
and efficient.
The significance of this is best illustrated
with the following example. University of
Maryland Baltimore with 500 Planmeca
