Perfect Protection Against Dust and Droplets! Hari Plant Dental Clinic’s Infection Control Secret, Made Even Safer with the Freearm Arteo!

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When you receive dental treatment, blood and saliva can collect in your mouth. That is why water is continuously sprayed during treatment to rinse it away.

Although that stream of water refreshingly cleans the inside of the mouth, the strong water pressure can also cause droplets to spread everywhere.

The problem is the bacteria and viruses contained in those splashed droplets.

What if the droplets sprayed by a previous patient during treatment were floating in the air, then you inhaled them when you breathed in? Just thinking about it can make you feel uneasy and uncomfortable.

Especially since COVID-19, infection control has become a sensitive issue, and more people have started paying close attention even to what cannot be seen.

That is why Hari Plant Dental Clinic does not compromise when it comes to health and safety, and practices dental infection control under strict standards. As part of that effort, we chose the Freearm Arteo system.

Today, we will introduce how thoroughly Hari Plant Dental Clinic is prepared for infection control, through the Freearm Arteo system.

The threat you face defenselessly during treatment: aerosol

Aerosol refers to contaminants mixed into the air. The aerosol generated during dental treatment usually contains blood and saliva in droplets, as well as dust floating in the air and secretions expelled by the patient.

Even in small amounts, such aerosols can cause various infections. In a dental setting, where patients must receive treatment with their mouths open for long periods of time, the likelihood of aerosols entering the body through breathing is naturally higher.

Aerosols are especially difficult to see, and they spread in real time during treatment. That is why a differentiated dental infection control strategy, separate from disinfection or sterilization, is necessary.

Freearm Arteo, which blocks the source of infection from the very beginning

“Wouldn’t it be enough to install an air purifier in the dental clinic to clean the aerosol?” If the risk is that aerosols spread through breathing, you may think this.

However, there are clear limits to cleaning aerosols with an air purifier. Because an air purifier slowly draws in contaminants from the air into its filter at regular intervals and removes them, instant response is difficult and the purification speed is relatively slow.

Especially in environments like dental treatment, where large amounts of aerosol are generated in a short time, real-time response is practically impossible. Above all, the disappointing part is that an air purifier is not immediately purifying the moment contamination occurs, but rather is a passive device that starts operating only after contamination has already spread.

By contrast, Freearm Arteo immediately sucks in the aerosol itself. Above every chair at Hari Plant Dental Clinic, there is an arm-shaped device attached. This device, shaped like a robot arm, is Freearm Arteo.

Based on its powerful suction, Freearm Arteo rapidly draws in the surrounding air. It is an active dental infection control system that removes aerosol before it can spread.

In particular, rather than slowly purifying the air like an air purifier, it operates throughout treatment and sucks in contaminants in real time, so it can handle even large amounts of aerosol without issue. In other words, it is an aggressive infection control system that blocks contamination the moment it occurs, before it spreads.

Because aerosol is so small and light that it cannot be seen easily, it should never be taken lightly, especially in environments sensitive to infection.

That is why Hari Plant Dental Clinic has installed Freearm Arteo on every treatment room chair (except for the orthodontic treatment room), thoroughly responding to infection control. This system is known as highly reliable in the field of dental infection control, to the extent that it is installed in 100% of dental university hospitals across Japan.

Hari Plant Dental Clinic believes that strict management of infection prevention, as well as the quality of treatment itself, is the first principle of care.

An environment where patients can focus on treatment with peace of mind, and thoroughness that does not miss even what cannot be seen. That is the medical philosophy Hari Plant Dental Clinic pursues.

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