Artiflex Dental Unit
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| Artiflex Dental Unit | |
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| Manufacturer | Siemens-Reiniger Werke A.G |
| Production years | 1950's |
The unit represents the equipment installed in large numbers in Britain as part of the expansion of National Health dental clinics in the 1950s. It includes everything from a Heliodent x-ray unit to a fan to keep the patient cool.
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[edit] How it works
This dental unit has all the tools that a dentist needed in the early 1950s. The unit power comes from electric motors inside the base and the drill operated at a relatively slow speed.
Air-powered motors came later and increased the speed of the drills; this significantly improved the experience of going to the dentist.
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[edit] In the Science Museum
This dental unit was collected in 1980, it came from C C Batchelder. Inv. No: 1980-1430
This object is currently on display in the Dan Dare & the Birth of Hi-Tech Britain exhibition at the Science Museum, London.