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Even though Bob Savage was doing the best he could—outfitting employees with masks, installing suction systems near equipment and the like—there was one reoccurring environmental problem at Drake Precision Dental Laboratories. Dust.

Bob Savage explains the difference Aeramax Professional made in Drake Dental Laboratories

The dust problem

“Dental labs, by their very nature, are dusty environments,” Savage, VP and CFO of the Charlotte, NC laboratory, said. “We use a lot of different materials that create dust and particulate matter that enters the air. Since I joined the company 20 years ago, it’s been a concern for us.”

So, the lab, which creates fixed and removeable dental prosthetics for clients in 40 states, took aggressive steps. Knowing that surface cleaning would just kick up more dust, Savage decided instead to clean the very air inside the facility, which host more than 100 employees.

Busy dental laboratories like Drake Precision Dental Lab are hotbeds of find particles creating a real dust problem.

After research, the company selected AeraMax Professional commercial-grade air purifiers. AeraMax Professional machines use a unique four-stage filtration system to effectively and efficiently remove up to 99.97 percent of airborne pollutants, like dust, allergens, bacteria, viruses, odors and volatile organic compounds, from indoor air.

Drake Precision Dental Laboratories also chose units featuring optional PureView™ technology. PureView features a visual display of the PM2.5 particle counts entering the units and the clean air coming out. The wall-mounted units also employ patented EnviroSmart™ Technology that senses sound, motion and odors in a room, automatically adjusting to optimize performance.

And the previous dust problem?

“Once we found (AeraMax Professional) and installed a number of units needed for the square footage, it became easier to control,” Savage said. “And the air quality is leaps and bounds from where it (previously) was.”

“The air quality is leaps and bounds from where it (previously) was.”

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Some jobs are just riskier than others. Take hang-gliding instructors. Or high-rise window washers. Or lion tamers, bear trap testers or even fireworks packers. But those pale in comparison to the riskiest industry in America: the dental industry.

According to a study conducted by Business Insider, the dental industry has five of the top ten unhealthiest—and thereby dangerous—professions among 974 occupations. By using a database supplied by the U.S. Department of Labor, and analyzing health impacts in six categories—exposure to contaminants, exposure to disease and infection, exposure to hazardous conditions, exposure to radiation, time spent sitting, and risks related to burns, cuts bites and stings—researchers were able to tabulate scores on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the highest risk.

Airborne particles—whether they be from bacteria, grinding dust or harmful chemicals and the like—contribute to making the dental profession so unhealthy

Prosthodontists

In the top ten, Prosthodontists, who construct oral prostheses, came in at number 7 with an “unhealthy” score of 63, due to high scores in exposure to disease and infection (88), exposure to contaminants (74) and time spent sitting (66).

Dental Assistants

Dental Assistants came in at number 5, with an overall score of 65.5. The profession ranked high because of exposure to disease and infection (a score of 96), exposure to radiation (85) and exposure to contaminants (78). Dental Laboratory Technicians followed on the heels of Dental Assistants at number 4 with a score of 65.7, with an exposure to disease and infection score of 72, a time spent sitting score of 85 and an exposure to contaminants score of a whopping 99.

General Dentist

General Dentists came in at number 2 with a score of 69.5, owing to high subscores of exposure to disease and infection (95), exposure to radiation (85) and time spent sitting (82).

Dental Hygienist

And coming in at number 1? Dental hygienists, with an overall score of 72.8 (exposure to disease and infection a full 100 points, exposure to radiation at 91 and time spent sitting at 85).

Clearly, airborne particles—whether they be from bacteria, grinding dust or harmful chemicals and the like—contribute to making the dental profession so unhealthy. One way to significantly improve indoor air quality in dental labs and offices relies on installing AeraMax Professional air purification units. These purifiers employ True HEPA filtration, removing up to 99.97 of airborne contaminants, like dust, allergens, chemicals, VOCs and bacteria from indoor air automatically.

So, contaminated air, like that in high-volume dental offices and close-quarter dental laboratories, can be scrubbed of harmful particulate, ensuring the health and well-being of workers.

Read more from Business Insider, “The 47 jobs that are most damaging to your health”.

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AeraMax Professional had a great chance to spread the Gospel of Clean Air when it was invited to shed light on air purity challenges in the dental lab industry during a two-part interview featured on the Voices from the Bench podcast recently. Voices from the Bench, hosted by industry professionals Elvis Dahl and Barbara Warner Wojdan, explores a variety of dental lab topics, ranging from emerging technologies to industry news.

AeraMax Professional sheds light on air purity challenges in the dental lab industry.

 

For a two-part interview (episodes 25 and 26, available here) ), the pair created a roundtable with Tad Friess of Rockert Dental Labs, Mike Booth, AeraMax’s Senior Global Market Manager—Air Treatment, and Blake Bobosky, AeraMax’s VP/GM of Air Treatment Sales, North America. The group discusses the challenges facing dental lab owners and employees who work in dust- and odor-filled environments. Friess also recounted the work done by staff at AeraMax Professional to identify previous poor air quality issues at his lab, as well as the solutions provided through the installation of AeraMax Professional air purification units, stating that the installation completely eradicated the dust and air quality issues.

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Part 1

Part 2

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