Charles Clifford Dental Hospital Sheffield Purchases Two Instrumentarium X ray Systems

The Charles Clifford Dental Hospital part of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has installed two Instrumentarium OC 200D OPG Digital Dental Systems and two Vistascan Perio Intra Oral digital X ray imaging plate scanner systems.  The systems were supplied and installed by Med Imaging Ltd who is the only UK agency for Instrumentarium Dental systems and Durr Dental products into Hospitals.

The newly installed digital dental systems are dramatically increasing patient throughput and departmental productivity in Dental Hospitals very busy X ray department. The Dental Hospital has replaced an ageing Plan Meca unit and an analogue OPG system for  two of the very latest Instrumentarium OC200D with Smartpad digital OPGs with cephalostat, in addition the Dental Hospital has converted their existing Intra oral X ray units to digital with 2  Durr Perio Intra Oral Digital X ray imaging Plate scanner systems.

Charles Clifford Dental Hospital is a teaching hospital linked to the University School of Clinical Dentistry, which has annual intakes of undergraduate and post graduate students. The hospital also provides dental out-patient services for Sheffield and its catchment area. In addition it provides specialist services in all departments to patients from a much wider area. It also incorporates the School of Dental Nursing, School of Hygiene and Therapy and Dental Technology.

Jane Wattam Superintendent Radiographer at the Dental Hospital’s X ray Department said “Our patient numbers have recently increased. We now have an exceptionally heavy throughput of patients for Extraoral imaging. We chose the Instrumentarium OC200D system because from experience the Instrumentarium OPG systems are extremely reliable and image quality is of the highest standard and we knew the system would withstand the workload“

The OC 200D with Smartpad is one of  the new generation of Instrumentariums Dental Orthopantomograph X- ray family and represents everything expected of a high quality dental extraoral imaging unit. It carries forward Instrumentariums reputation of reliability and Clinical excellence and offers market leading innovations in patient and operator safety.

The OP200 D is complemented with accurate and stable patient positioning, dose controlled automatic exposure, clinically proven imaging geometry together with a wide range of dose reducing features for both Pan and Cepahalostat patients. These new units installed at Sheffield also include auto collimation and a bitewing programme. 

All the programmes on the OC200D are controlled from the large 12.1" SmartPad™ touchscreen providing an easy- to-use menu with simple and intuitive navigation.

The Vistascan Perio has enabled the department to retain their existing intra oral X ray units but to move from film processing to digital image capture, with captured images now being available to the radiographer in 15 seconds.

The Vistascan perio offers a wide range of imaging phosphor plates in the same formats as existing Intra oral film including Occlusal. 

The advantages of the Vistascan perio system are that there is no re education required for the application of image plates as handling, positioning and choice of formats are the same as for film, with the added benefit of high exposure tolerance, excellent image quality, 30% higher sensitivity than film, higher resolution lower patient dose and long term system reliability.

Complementing the advantage is the DBSWIN software programme which enhances the diagnostic quality of the images through automatic and personal image optimisation.

The system provides a fast efficient workflow as well as DICOM connectivity to the HIS/RIS system and PACS.

“The Vistascan Perio is ideal for our busy department as we take a significant number of occlusal images and with the easy to use range of CR plates provided with the system we have not had to change our techniques but we can now offer our Orthodontists exceptional image quality and because the images are digital we can release patients straight away instead of asking  them to wait until we have checked their wet processed images. “Says Jane Wattam Superintendent Radiographer”

Seen in the above picture at the handover of the new systems are from left to right:-

Rowan Bell – Senior Radiographer

Brian Stallard – Strategic Account Manager – Med Imaging Ltd

Joyce Topham – Technical Officer

Jane Wattam – Superintendent Radiographer

Julie Ray – Senior Radiographer.

Med Imaging are having continued success in their rollout of Instrumentarium Dental equipment, with two recent installations at Maidenhead and Market Harborough and success with an order for an OC200D at Portsmouth NHS Trust.

The current order book for this range of dental equipment goes to prove that with their unique features, keen pricing and quality of service offered by MI; that  Instrumentarium products really are the preferred choice in many radiology departments.

Following a tender submission via NHS Supply Chain, Med Imaging were able to demonstrate that their value added service proposal offered not only a greater saving in revenue to the trust but also added flexibilty.
The contract which is a partnership arrangement with North Lincolnshire NHS Trust medical engineering department also offers extensive training for their engineers and will provide a service to the departments across the trust which will ensure that downtime is minimised.

The Baccara dRF 43 is a  remote-controlled table with the full-field dynamic flat-panel digital detector. Dedicated to radiographic and fluoroscopic procedures, the Baccara dRF 43 has been developed to be a versatile, workflow enhancing solution in today’s fast-paced medical imaging field.

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