Over the Patient Delivery

PROS:
- Smaller room size
- Inexpensive to equip
- Space available for specialty equip
- Handpieces at fingertips from the 12 o'clock position
CONS:
- Disinfection/Cleaning of treatment space is labor intensive
- Dr. and assistant must work with >180° range of motion
- Assistant trapped in room during procedure
- Dental equipment intrusive to patients visual/personal space
- Room must be heavily stocked
- R/L convertibility fair to poor depending on unit selected
- Dr. or assistant cannot reach all supplies
- Inefficient from the 7 o'clock position