Mobile Dental X-ray Units

[Axel Ruprecht]

Hello

I agree with Lisa that contact points for these units
sellers/suppliers would be great. Address, telephone number, e-mail,
fax, website?

Rgds
Axek


>Hello Axel,  thanks for asking a question about mobile x-ray units.  Thanks
>also to Eriks Blaschka for the contact number for Sirona.  Does anybody
>have the contact numbers for the other units Jim Geist mentioned: Image-X
>70 Plus, Irix 70 and Novelix ETX.  We are building a new school and I am
>receiving a lot of pressure to obtain mobile units for the clinic floor.
>The argument being that making the patient go to radiology is not
>patient-centered.  I have been strongly opposed to this as I believe that
>mobile units are only indicated when the patient is non-ambulatory.  Our
>experience is that they tend to sit in the corner and gather dust because
>it is more difficult to get them to the patient than to have the patient go
>to radiology.  I do think that having them in Oral Surgery for patients
>under anaesthesia and in Special Patient Clinics is an excellent use for
>them. (fits my criteria for non-ambulatory patients)  Does anyone have any
>experience with these units other than in these two areas? What about
>radiation protection and infection control?
>Lisa Koenig
>
>At 01:39 PM 8/29/01 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>Hello
>>
>>I have a series of questions. This is the first.
>>
>>What mobile dental x-ray units are currently on the market, and what
>>is the contact point for the companies who make/sell them?
>>
>>Thank you.
>>
>>Rgds
>>Axel
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>>Axel Ruprecht D.D.S., M.Sc.D., F.R.C.D.(C)
>>Professor and Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
>>Professor of Radiology
>>Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology
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>>(O) 319-335-7341
>>(FAX) 319-335-7351
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>>e-mail:axel-ruprecht at uiowa.edu
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>>mail: University of Iowa - DSB
>>         Iowa City  IA 52242-1001
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>>Web: http://ruprecht.radiology.uiowa.edu
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>>The only man who ever got all his work
>>done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.
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Axel Ruprecht D.D.S., M.Sc.D., F.R.C.D.(C)
Professor and Director of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology
Professor of Radiology
Professor of Anatomy and Cell Biology

  (O) 319-335-7341
  (FAX) 319-335-7351

  e-mail:axel-ruprecht at uiowa.edu

  mail: University of Iowa - DSB
           Iowa City  IA 52242-1001

Web: http://ruprecht.radiology.uiowa.edu

The only man who ever got all his work
done by Friday was Robinson Crusoe.

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