How to Find the Right Operating Table for Endodontics

Prevent Pain with the Right Selection of your Operating Table in Endodontics

Endodontists are often affected by back pain because their profession requires a predominantly seated position and is associated with repetitive movements and long working hours.

• Prolonged sitting position: During endodontic procedures, you work in a seated position for extended periods. This can strain the spine, especially if the posture is not ergonomic or the chair does not provide sufficient support.
• Repetitive movements: Endodontic treatments often require precise and repeated movements, such as holding instruments and manipulating fine tools in the narrow oral cavity. These repeated movements can lead to muscle tension and overload, especially if they are not performed in an ergonomically correct posture.
• Lack of ergonomics in the working environment: A poorly designed working environment, such as an inadequately adjusted treatment chair, a poorly accessible operating field, or a lack of support for arms and wrists, can lead to an unfavorable posture and increase the strain on the spine.

To reduce pain, it is important that you apply ergonomic principles in your working environment: These include the use of ergonomically designed treatment chairs and instruments, the correct adjustment of the working position, regular breaks to relieve the muscles, and the performance of back-strengthening exercises.

An ergonomic operating table can also help prevent postural pain. These operating tables can be adapted to your posture during surgical procedures, allowing you to work in a posture-friendly manner over a longer period.

Three Professional Tips

The three most important tips from endodontics expert Dr. Tomas Lang, with over ten years of experience from practical testing, research and development:

• Adaptation of the operating equipment to individual body measurements
• Exact alignment of the operating table in relation to the practice furniture

• Support elements close to the patient’s head, e.g. microsurgery ring – a microsurgery ring also minimizes the risk of injury when the doctor or assistant moves, as it is connected to the patient’s headrest.

Operating Tables for Endodontics – Ergonomic Work with a Microscope

Tooth roots are highly complex structures. In addition to main canals, most roots also have small secondary canals – sometimes finer than a human hair. If they are overlooked during treatment, the tissue residues and bacteria remaining in them could lead to renewed infection with pain or inflammation even years after treatment. An operating microscope makes these small details visible and enables precise treatment. To ensure that you can work ergonomically with the microscope, you should consider the following points:

• Hand position: Take a relaxed position with your arms and wrists. The arms should be slightly angled and aligned with the shoulders and body. It is advisable to use a supportive armrest to reduce the strain on the arms and wrists.
• Lighting: Adequate lighting is important to ensure good visibility and minimal eye strain. The lighting should be adjusted so that the working field is optimally illuminated and reflections are minimized.
• Breaks and stretching: Regular breaks should be taken to relieve the muscles and avoid stiffness. During the breaks, stretching exercises for the neck, back and shoulders can be performed to release tension.

The adjustment options of your operating table are crucial to ensure that you can adopt this ideal posture at the microscope.

The Right Ergonomics for your Patients

The correct positioning of the patient on the operating table is of crucial importance for a successful surgical procedure. Depending on the type of surgery, different positions are required on the operating table. Appropriate positioning allows both the surgeon and the assistant staff optimal access and provides the patient with a comfortable position to avoid tissue damage, limb pain and a longer recovery time as secondary consequences. It is also important that your patients are always safely and stably positioned.

Numerous studies have attempted to determine the optimal posture for patients of different genders and body types. It was found that an angle of 140 degrees between the lower and upper thigh as well as between the thigh and trunk should be maintained to allow the patient to lie relaxed during the often long microscope treatment.

The optimal positioning of the patient has the goal of offering the patient a relaxed position as well as enabling the treating endodontist and the assistant to have favorable working conditions with the treatment microscope. This dual objective is achieved by a suitable operating table, which therefore plays the central role in the design of the treatment area.

Endodontists Work Ergonomically with BRUMABA Operating Tables

This is where BRUMABA comes into play: The company, based south of Munich, manufactures high-quality operating tables, operating chairs and treatment couches, with a focus on the best possible ergonomic working conditions. BRUMABA operating tables not only have the practical microsurgery ring, but their slim design also makes them very flexible to move and ensures optimal freedom of movement. The height can also be adjusted individually. The highlight is the so-called Airplane-function: A lateral longitudinal axis tilt inclines the operating field towards you, protecting your back. The operating table adapts to the doctor’s posture and not the other way around.

• You can adjust the height of the operating table continuously. This not only guarantees an ideal working position and a back-friendly treatment, but also offers a comfortable entry aid for your patients.
• Speaking of patients – thanks to the comfortable and segmented lying position of our operating tables, your patients lie in an ergonomic position that ensures relaxation of the muscles and breathing. The individual head, torso and foot elements can be adjusted at an angle or flat to regulate blood flow individually. In addition, our models are equipped with comfortable cushions so that pressure points are a thing of the past – this is particularly important with the long treatment times in endodontics.
• Flexibility in the operating room also contributes to ensuring that changing work processes are not associated with additional stress: Our operating tables are mobile and can be integrated into any work structure. Thanks to the wireless operation and a battery life of up to one week, you are always flexible and mobile.
• Your working comfort is also supported with customized accessories that can be adapted to your requirements, such as the microsurgery ring or individually adjustable forearm supports.

Conclusion: Optimal Working Environment for Comfort and Precision with Operating Tables from BRUMABA.

The selection of the right operating table is crucial for ergonomic work in endodontics. Adjust and tilt the BRUMABA operating table so that you can work comfortably and ergonomically – the table adapts to your working posture and not the other way around. With the Airplane-function, you can even tilt the operating table to the side – the game changer for many operations. This allows you to work comfortably even over a long period of time. Our operating chairs and accessories form an ideal complement, so that the physical strain during surgery and assisting is reduced to a minimum – a sustainable investment in your own health and that of your team.