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toilets. The upper floor was reserved for staff with prac- tice manager’s office, staff room, toilets/shower, dedi- cated video conferencing and training room, sundries store room and equipment room. Excited by Jon’s design, I
spent several weeks looking at other recently completed prac- tices. Armed with feedback from this and other sources, I asked Dereck Lang of SAS Shopfitters to cost the work. I was very impressed by the previous work SAS had been involved with and accepted their quote, which I thought was fair, particularly taking into account the excellent standard of their work. Plan- ning and building approval came through in December 2010 and SAS started work on the site in March 2011. Michael Adair of Henry
Schein, Glasgow, equipped the new practice and, along
go with Software of Excel- lence as our system software which communicates via our N3 connection to the health board. A few weeks in, the advantages of the new system are becoming increasingly obvious. We passed our building and
health board inspections in June and opened our doors a few days later as Blue Sky Dental. I would like to thank
with his team, became regular visitors during the remainder of the build. Michael has a wealth of experience in surgery design and I can honestly say I found his help indispensible as I ploughed through the myriad of equip- ment options. It’s not often I trust a salesman but Michael was an exception! I decided to go for Belmont Clesta II chairs with electric packs in all the surgeries and individual
surgery Durr suction motors rather than central suction. Radiography was catered
for by Kodak intra-oral units in each surgery, a Gendex digital OPT and a Durr Perio+ phosphor plate processing unit, which sends the proc- essed image straight into the patient file. No more filling and replacing x-ray chemicals... wonderful! Wi th Microminder supplying our IT, I opted to
everyone involved in the project, especially my staff and particularly practice managers Kerry Lambie and Vicki MacKay, who worked above and beyond their normal duties. Thanks also to the various departments at the health board for all their help. It has taken time for all the
aspects of our new practice to come together but the result is an NHS practice that I, my staff, and our patients can really be proud to be part of.
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