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Advanced Skills
Teaching advanced dental skills means we need to have the latest laboratories and equipment. Our Key Biscayne facility, built in 1999, has just that. |
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Only the Best
Stocked with the highest-quality KaVo equipment, including articulators and handpieces, our labs are a pleasure to work in. |
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A Front-Row Seat
Closed-circuit TV systems and high-tech viewing screens at lab stations allow instructors to show detailed procedures at the front of the lab, while giving everyone a front-row seat.
The instructor's document camera can focus on an x-ray, a model or overhead notes. A dome camera located above the instructor allows for further demonstrations. Any data or pictures from the instructor's computer or laptop can instantly be shown to everyone in the lab. |
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Fully Stocked Lab Benches
Each lab bench can be converted to an operatory, allowing clinical and lab procedures to be done at the same place simply by adding or removing the lifelike mannequin. Each bench also contains a convenient-to-use vacuum, handpieces and footpedal controls.
Light curing units for composites are available at lab benches, and a larger Triad light curing machine is also available. |
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Everything You'll Need
In the second floor lab, 5 units for polishing appliances, along with 2 units for trimming models and a steam cleaner, await you. Sterilizing units and handpiece lubricators are located in both the second and first floor labs. |
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Easy-to-Work-With Mannequins
Our mannequins, which can be converted for use by both right- and left-handed people, have been designed to closely replicate the human head and jaw.
Removable models allow instructors to demonstrate different types of oral health problems dentists may encounter in a person's mouth. A convenient vacuum connects from the mannequin to the vacuum unit, to quickly sweep away particles from grinding. |
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An Intimate Setting
With a capacity for 24 downstairs and 26 upstairs, our labs are big enough to accommodate full classes of students, but intimate enough to allow for real learning and collaboration. |
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Our Clinic
The clinic is really the highlight of the first three courses as it is where the students do reversible procedures on each other, such as exams and bite splint therapy, and irreversible procedures on very lifelike mannequins that adapt to the clinic chair. |
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The Centric Relation Trainer
The clinic is also where we introduce our students to the Centric Relation Trainer, a mannequin skull containing computerized sensing devices. This device was designed and built at The Pankey Institute to help doctors quantify what they could only sense before. |
