How To Effectively Get The Most Dental Treatment Rooms In A Given Space

Universal dental rooms are great and they are super easy to manage. But they are actually not the way to get the greatest number of treatment rooms possible into a given space and thus you may want to consider alternative treatment room designs to accommodate greater hygiene capacity, surgical or sedation care, or even treatment/consultation hybrid suites.
You have choices. Make sure that you explore all of your options. Far too many office designers, including the big box dental retailers, don’t want you to know this.
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How many squarefeet do you recommend for a hygiene room and for a universal room?

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Dimensions of the room are more important than the actual square feet of the room. Hygiene Room - Typically 7ft wide by 11ft deep Universal Room - Typically 8ft4in wide by 11ft deep. At these dimensions the rooms become the most efficient, the dimensions are flexible within an inch or two. With that being said, we wouldn’t want to go wider than 9ft wide for a universal room because if you do, then you can’t reach the side walls easily (and we know you can’t use what you can’t reach). We also wouldn’t want to go any narrower than 6ft6in wide in a Hygiene room because if you do, it becomes too cramped and uncomfortable for the Doctor, Hygienist, and patient. Hope this helps! 😊