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Lighting for a Orthodontic Area

Lighting for a Orthodontic Area

Lighting for a Orthodontic Area

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At our College we have a Dental School. We are renovating the Orthodontic area, only eight patient chairs, about a 35'x35' room. Patient heads will be pointing to the center of the room, with low walls for privacy. Kinda like a wagon wheel, with a walk around counter at the center.
Any experience for lighting? Original 20 plus year old design had 63, 2-lamp, 2x4 fixtures, acrylic prismatic lenses.
Would uplights be better, or stick with the prismatics? I didn't think parabolics would be good because patient would be looking directly at lamps. Any help would be great. Thanks. Andrew

RE: Lighting for a Orthodontic Area

If you have a white tile type ceiling.  I'd say reccomend using indirect up-lighting for two reasons:  1) patients will not have to stare directly into light 2) indirect lighting provides for better light distribution (less shadows or dark spots) when dealing with cubical type setup.  

Regards,

Sense

RE: Lighting for a Orthodontic Area

The ambient lighting is more for comfort than anything else.  The lighting into the mouth is still mandatory and cannot be gotten from ceiling lights

TTFN



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