What is the Flight A12 Operatory System?

What is a Dental Operatory?

The best place to start is always at the beginning, asking the important questions. To get a better understanding of what you’re looking at, let’s look at what your standard operatory is.

A dental operatory, also known as a dental treatment center, is a hugely equipped workspace for dentists and hygienists.

It’s not just a simple chair, these workspaces contain all of the essential dental equipment needed to perform treatments and operations. The kinds of things you’ll find in your average dental operatory include but are not limited to:

• The Patient Chair: An adjustable, motorized seat designed for long-term patient comfort and clinical access.
• Lighting: High-intensity LED or halogen systems that provide shadow-free illumination of the oral cavity.
• The Delivery Unit: The “command center” for the dentist, holding the handpieces (drills), air/water syringes, and control pads.
• Assistant’s Instrumentation: Suction lines and syringes positioned for the assistant’s use.
• The Cuspidor: A porcelain or glass bowl used for patient rinsing.

The A12 Operatory System

This is one of the main operators offerings from Flight Dental Systems. It offers a workstation with a vast array of tools and customization options from the get go. The A12 Operatory System combines comfort, ergonomics, and reliability in its chair. Synchronized backrest, seat movement, and an ultra thin backrest. They embrace the combination of maximum comfort, ergonomics and efficiency in a revolutionary way.

This award-winning setup walks the line between comfort and reliability like few others can. With a delivery system that sports exceptional range of motion for easy oral access during any procedure. The A12 Operatory seeks to create the perfect chair by creating the perfect experience through a carefully curated selection.

With an entire workspace at your disposal in the A12 Operatory System… it’s about more than just that… the real fun is in the details. The A12 Operatory System sports a wealth of various features that aim to create the ideal station that offers the best of it all. Things like:

• Hydraulic motor with 380mm as the lowest position capability of the chair.
• Dual 180 rotatable arms allows for convenient placement of cuspidor and
  tray units for doctor and assistant.
• Left-hand and right-hand capability optimizes efficiency and space
  for doctor and patient.
• New designed dental light providing superb luminosity.
• Thin backrest provides the optimal space and access for the dentist and
  close positioning to the patient.
• 12 seamless or plush upholstery colors.
• 4 programmable chair position settings to make the work more efficient for the dentist.
• Synchronized backrest and seat movements to provide the most comfortable patient seating.
• Optional LCD monitor mount.
• Optional G.Comm IRIS LED Light.

Even with this, there’s one more thing we’d be remiss if we didn’t mention… Customization.

What Can I Customize?

One of the other incredible things that makes the A12 Operatory System so accessible is customization. When you go to order the operators, you’ll see a customization menu for various aspects of the system. And this can range from chair materials, built-in tools, light options, assistant’s materials and more.

Upholstery

You can choose between two different materials for the patient chair when choosing your ideal operatory. Flight Dental Systems offers their A12 Operatory System chair to be available in these customization options:

• Seamless Asepsis: This is a smooth, heat-sealed material. Because there are no stitches or seams, there is nowhere for bacteria or fluids to hide. This is the gold standard for infection control.
• Sewn Pillowtop: This utilizes memory foam inserts and stitched seams. It provides a “spa-like” feel for longer procedures, such as endodontics or oral surgery.

Fabric Type and Color

With the chair, you also have a list of choices to customize the fabric type and color. It’s important to note, however, you’ll notice the option there named Ultraleather in the color menu. Unlike standard vinyl, Ultraleather is a high-performance polyurethane. It is designed to be “breathable” (staying cool against the patient’s skin) and is highly resistant to the harsh chemical disinfectants used between every patient visit. It offers the premium look of leather with the durability of industrial-grade plastic.

With this huge selection of options, you have the choices of:

• Black
• Chaps
• Custom Color Standard Ultraleather
• Custom Color Standard Vinyl
• Honesty
• Light Grey
• Marmalade
• Red
• Stone
• Taupe
• Valley
• Walnut
• Wood Violet

Delivery System and Delivery Options

The delivery system of the A12 operatory has an array of options for customization. An operatory delivery system in this case is the hub tray that holds all of the dentist’s tools of the trade. But to know what you’re really looking at, you’ll need to focus on the first part of the customization, which starts at the choice of an uphung or downhung setup.

Traditional (Downhung): The hoses hang down from the tray. Gravity helps the hoses stay out of the way, but the dentist must “pull” the tool toward them.

Continental (Uphung): Also known as “Whip” arms. The hoses sit on top of the tray on spring-loaded arms. This reduces the weight of the hose on the dentist’s wrist and prevents tools from ever touching the floor.

The A12 Operatory offers both of these options for customization of their delivery units, specifically your choices look like this:

• A12 Radius Delivery Unit – Traditional Downhung Hoses (Includes: Syringe + 3 Handpiece Tubing) 
• A12 Radius Delivery Unit – Continental Uphung Hoses (Includes: Syringe + 3 Handpiece Tubing)

But there are also in-depth customization options for extra additions to your delivery system, like:

• Adding a 4th Handpiece Hose – Traditional 
• Adding a 4th Handpiece Position – Continental 
• An additional Syringe 
• A 6 Pin FO with Hose 
• A 5 Pin FO with Hose 
• A built in Piezo Scaler 
• And a built in Magnetostrictive Scaler (Cavitron Style)

Light Head

The light above the chair is both useful and very important to the process too. And lucky for the prospective buyer, the you can also customize the kind of light you’ll receive with your Flight A12 Operatory. You’ll see various options but they all revolve around two different types of lights. The first one you’ll see is called a Flight Torch LED. These are reliable, high-output lights that provides a crisp, white field. A simple, no nonsense light source.

The other kind of light head you’ll see listed is the IRIS LED. These aren’t your standard fare, these lights feature a “Curing Mode.” This filters out the blue light spectrum, allowing the dentist to work with light-sensitive filling materials (composites) without them hardening prematurely.

The A12 Operatory has a list of light heads for customization that you’ll see, and these include:

• Radius Mounted Flight Torch LED 
• Radius Mounted Flight IRIS LED 
• Wall Mounted Torch LED 
• Wall Mounted IRIS LED 
• Cabinet Mounted Torch LED 
• Cabinet Mount IRIS LED 
• Ceiling Mounted Torch LED 
• Ceiling Mounted IRIS LED

Cuspidor Options

A cuspidor, or as some may call it, a spittoon, is basically akin to a rinse station. It has plumbing options attached to a bowl for patients to rinse their mouth of fluids, debris, or any other substances used in a procedure. The cuspidor usually has various filters and faucets to properly facilitate the drain and help the waste find its proper discarding place.

The cuspidor customization for the Flight A12 Operatory is an optional add-on. Some dentists prefer a cuspidor-free setup in exchange for alternatives like high-volume suction for hygiene, or general space saving. But the A12 Operatory comes with the option for a porcelain cuspidor attachment if that’s what suits your fancy.

Assistant Instrumentation

We can’t forget a dentist’s partner in crime in the dental office, the assistant. The Flight A12 Operatory offers a couple of customization options for the operatory to add some extra attention to the assistant’s side of the table. These extras include optional assistance-centered attachments through:

• The addition of A12 Assistant Instrumentation 
• And the addition of Extra HVE (high-volume suction)

To understand why the addition of an extra HVE is important, we have to look at what an HVE is:

High-Volume Evacuation (HVE): These are the large bore suction tools that the assistant will use during various procedures. Its primary job isn’t just sucking up saliva; it’s aerosol mitigation. An HVE captures 90-95% of the “mist” created by high-speed drills that can contain bacteria and viruses. Adding a second HVE line allows the assistant to use an isolation device while still having a free suction tip for debris removal.

Final Thoughts

The Flight A12 Operatory System is more than just a piece of furniture; it is a highly adaptable foundation for any modern dental practice. By balancing high-end ergonomics for the patient with modular flexibility for the practitioner, Flight Dental Systems has created a workstation that truly evolves with your needs.

Whether you prefer a streamlined, cuspidor-free setup for maximum efficiency or a fully loaded delivery unit with integrated scalers and advanced LED lighting, the A12 offers the precision and reliability required for top-tier care. As we continue to expand our dental catalog, we are proud to offer solutions like the A12 Operatory System that prioritize both the comfort of the patient and the long-term health and productivity of the dental team.  

If you’d like to read more info on the Flight A12 Operatory System, you can find it here on our website. If you have any questions about the A12 Operatory System or anything else, give us a call at 704-966-1650 and we’ll help you with whatever you need.

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You can find more info on the Flight A12 Operatory on our site here.