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Dental X-ray installation for UK practices: intraoral, OPG (panoramic) and CBCT units mounted, connected and integrated with your imaging software, with room shielding planned alongside your Radiation Protection Adviser. As the installer, we carry out the critical examination required under IRR17 together with your RPA, and hand over the records you need for HSE registration and IR(ME)R.
The building work, equipment installation and radiation protection steps, coordinated as one project.
Wall-mounted intraoral tubeheads with sensor or phosphor plate systems, OPG units and CBCT scanners installed and linked to your practice software (for example Sidexis, Romexis or CS Imaging) and your network.
Under IRR17 you must consult a Radiation Protection Adviser. Your RPA assesses workload, room layout and who sits on the other side of each wall; we turn that assessment into wall, door and window specifications, often lead-lined plasterboard, and build it into the drawings.
Unit aligned, exposure settings checked and image quality tested, with the baseline values your Medical Physics Expert uses for acceptance testing under IR(ME)R and for later routine tests.
IRR17 requires the installer to carry out a critical examination in consultation with your RPA. We carry it out with your RPA to confirm that the safety features and warning signals work and that the installation gives adequate protection, and you receive the report, installation records and operator documentation for your radiation protection file.
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From survey to first clinical exposure. Durations are typical.
Room measured, wall and floor fixings checked for the unit's weight, power supply confirmed and the RPA's shielding advice obtained. Your HSE registration should be in place before work with ionising radiation starts.
Lead-lined plasterboard or other shielding fitted to the RPA's specification, with laps at joints and protection behind sockets and service openings.
Unit mounted and aligned, exposure switch and warning signals wired, electrics certified to BS 7671 and software integrated.
Critical examination carried out with your RPA, exposure and image quality checks, and baseline data for acceptance testing.
Reports and records handed over, staff shown the unit, and local rules and the Radiation Protection Supervisor role confirmed with the practice.
Common questions about installing dental X-ray equipment in the UK.
Wall-mounted intraoral units, OPG (panoramic) units with or without cephalometric arms, and CBCT scanners from the main manufacturers. We are authorised and factory-trained for Dentsply Sirona, and our completed work includes Sirona panoramic and 3D/CBCT imaging; for other brands we confirm before quoting.
That depends on the unit, workload and what is on the other side of each wall, and it is your RPA's assessment that decides it. Many intraoral installations need little or no extra shielding in solid-walled rooms; OPG and CBCT rooms more often need lead-lined walls or doors. We build whatever the RPA specifies.
Under the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017 the practice must register with the HSE, consult an RPA, have local rules and a Radiation Protection Supervisor, and the installer must carry out a critical examination. Under IR(ME)R 2017 the employer needs written procedures and Medical Physics Expert involvement, including acceptance testing before clinical use. In England, CQC inspects IR(ME)R compliance.
Servicing to the manufacturer's schedule and routine performance testing at the intervals your RPA or MPE recommends. Our X-ray testing and servicing page explains how we work with them.
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