Simulation Units

Effective learning

In pre-clinical education a learning environment simulating practice-like conditions is a key success factor. Knowing teaching concepts, local practices and infrastructural conditions are seldom the same, Dentsply Sirona offers solutions for Simulation Units tailored to your individual needs. The use of key components of our treatment centers allows a realistic simulation working environment. Students become familiar with details of subsequent treatment processes in the preclinical semesters and a smooth transition to the clinical semesters is facilitated.

Cost-effective

Dentsply Sirona offers you an overall concept tailored to your budget framework. Individual choice of configurations and high quality materials ensure an optimal price-performance ratio.

Individual solutions Made in Germany

With Dentsply Sirona every simulation unit is customized to fit your functional requirements and spatial conditions as well as you budget. When it comes to designing your individual Simulation Units, we leave nothing to chance. We accompany you step by step during the planning and design process from the initial idea to implementation. You benefit from our international experience in a variety of university projects. For us, "Made in Germany" stands for quality and customer satisfaction.

Our Simulation Units can be equipped with different kinds of dentist elements depending on the required functionalities as well as space conditions.

• Ergonomic design with flexibly positionable arm
• Fully fledged with up to 5+1 instruments including high speed and low speed handpieces, scaler and intra-oral camera
• With the choice of two different user interfaces:  key pad or touchscreen
  
• Integrated endo functionality

Our Simulation Units can be equipped with different kinds of assistant elements depending on the required functionalities as well as space conditions.

Choice of

• fully-fledged assistant element on separate support arm with up to 4 instrument trays (syringe, LED curing light, HVE, saliva ejector, intraoral camera) and user interface (key pad)
  
• Hangers for high volume ejector and/or saliva ejector 
  

Choice of two different foot controls:

• Pneumatic foot control: The disc gas pedal starts/stops the instruments
• Electric foot control:  With the electric foot control the speed and intensity of the instruments can additionally be controlled. The height of the patient simulator position can also be adjusted using the foot control.
• 4-way foot switch: If the height of the patient simulator is adjusted by a motor, it can also be activated by a 4-way foot switch.

All versions are attached to the center of the junction box making it suitable for left and right-handed users.

Two different models of treatment lights are available to choose from. Both work with LED technology and they are fully-fledged treatment lights like those used in patient treatment. In addition, there is also the option of an exclusive laboratory lamp.

In order to display content from different sources, a monitor can be integrated into the simulation workstation. If you already have a monitor in place, we can easily provide just the mechanical and media technology VESA interfaces it would need.

The Simulation Units can be extended with further optional dental add-ons to carry out interdisciplinary courses teaching also prosthetic dentistry:

• Motor and handpiece for dental technology: Integrated into the Simulation Unit to carry out work in dental technology
• Dry grinding: The protective disk and dry suction system prevent unhealthy dust from being inhaled
• Wet grinding: A basin built into the benchtop and a wet suction system allow practitioners to work without a spray mist
• Bunsen burner/Induction heating unit: For waxing up exercises
  

Ergonomics is a key value for Dentsply Sirona in all our product designs. We want the students to learn the right working postures already in the simulation lab.

• Dentist and assistant elements can be positioned optimally for all treatment situations
• Continuously adjustable height and inclination of the patient simulator guarantees optimal user posture
• Switch in a matter of seconds between right- and left-hander treatment without tools
• Ergonomical working stools support the practitioner in each working position
  

The simulation unit can equipped with a holistic hygiene concept. You quickly, easily, and safely achieve the highest hygiene standards for the protection of instructors and students.

• Integrated disinfection system: permanent disinfection of all water pathways
• Automatic sanitizing function for regular intensive disinfection. Can also be used with self-contained water supply
• Integrated cleaning adapter – for automatic purging of instrument hoses (Purge and AutoPurge function) and sanitization of the water lines
• Chemical suction hose cleaning – cleaning agent container for chemical purging of the suction lines
• Monitoring and documentation of hygiene measures with the unit management software Vionex.

The Simulation Units can be set up in different layouts depending on the space conditions and the preferred teaching concepts. Possible layouts are:

• In Rows
• Standalone
• Double chair
• Clusters
• Combination workplace with a treatment center
• Clusters (star‐shape)

The intraoral scanners Primescan and Omnicam can be directly attached to the simulation unit facilitating working with CEREC and prepCheck. Their flexible arms enable students at several adjacent workstations to use the scanner. This solution provides ergonomically ideal working conditions for the students, and also makes the investment highly efficient.

For exercises for e.g. surgery or periodontics it is necessary to practice on animals’ jaws. With our Simulation Units you can easily take off the patient phantom and attach a surgery tray. The screws of the surgery tray hold the jaw firmly in position and all excess liquids are collected in the steel tub.

Dentsply Sirona has a strong and successful partnership with frasaco for many decades already. frasaco offers you a complete range of dental training systems with phantom heads and a variety of dental models.
Dentsply Sirona has chosen frasaco as our preferred partner; nevertheless are our Simulation Units flexible to integrate patient simulators from other manufacturers as well.

Dentsply Sirona has strong and successful partnerships with various manufacturers of medical furniture for simulation labs, treatment rooms and sterilizations areas. Together we completed many turn-key projects taking all functional as well as aesthetic factors into account.

The biggest challenges in a simulation lab are visibility, distractions and instructor accessibility to all devices. The award-winning alphadidact® digital system allows instructors at the touch of a button to share realtime, high-quality images from any device on any screen in the classroom. This enables the instructor to check up on student progress, share, collaborate and monitor. The user interface operating the system can be controlled via a keyboard or via an App running on a tablet.

Dentsply Sirona has installed more than 2000 simulation units in the last 10 years. Many things have to be taken into account when designing a training environment for dental students: the training concept, sustainability for the future, extensible products, and cost-effectiveness. You need a competent partner for this. We support you from the start with experienced consultants and professional targeted planning.

Read here about some of our success stories.