Evaluation of field dental equipment in a deployment environment
| Autor: | Mark B. Lyles, Howard W. Roberts, James C. Ragain, David G. Charlton, A. Dale Ehrlich |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Dental Service
Hospital Service (systems architecture) Warfare education Environment Hospitals Military Dental Equipment Field (computer science) Military medicine Procurement stomatognathic system Environmental health Materials Testing Radiography Dental Medicine Humans Military Dentistry Equipment Safety business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Sterilization Tooth Injuries General Medicine Radiography Dental Digital United States Test (assessment) stomatognathic diseases Navy Engineering management Kuwait business Deployment environment |
| Zdroj: | Military medicine. 171(3) |
| ISSN: | 0026-4075 |
| Popis: | Dental officers and technicians must have reliable, durable, well-performing field dental equipment to enable them to provide dental care to deployed troops in operational environments. Unfortunately, no organized program exists to test such equipment before its purchase and use in the field. This article presents the results of a project conducted by the Naval Institute for Dental and Biomedical Research and the Air Force Dental Evaluation and Consultation Service to evaluate commercially available field dental equipment through laboratory testing and clinical-user evaluations in theater. The purpose of this 2-year project was to identify the best-performing and most cost-effective field dental equipment for possible future procurement. Initial laboratory testing was performed at the Naval Institute for Dental and Biomedical Research, and the equipment was then shipped to Kuwait for in-theater environmental and clinical-user testing. A seven-member scientific team of military dental officers and technicians was deployed for 1 month to perform in-theater testing under regional environmental conditions and to coordinate clinical-user evaluations. The testing provided beneficial results by identifying equipment that performed properly and equipment that exhibited shortcomings serious enough to render it inadequate for operational use. It is recommended that the project serve as a model for future testing and evaluation of medical/dental equipment by all of the military services. |
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