Dental clinic renovation in Batumi: chair connections, compressor room, X-ray

Dental clinic renovation starts with the chair's installation drawing

Every dental chair unit comes with an installation drawing from the manufacturer. It shows where, relative to the chair's axis, the water, drain, compressed air, suction and cables come out of the floor, and what their diameters and cross-sections are. Get it wrong by a few centimetres, and the connection point ends up under the chair base or beyond its edge, and the floor has to be opened up.

That is why the clinic chooses the models of chair unit, compressor, suction and X-ray equipment before the rough work, and we get the drawings from the supplier. If the choice is taking a while, sleeves and a duct with spare capacity can be laid in the floor, but the exact routing is still done only to the drawing. The clinic confirms which rooms it needs, and under what conditions, from the requirements for its licence or permit, and we carry out dental clinic renovation in Batumi to that list. Solutions common to all medical premises, from ventilation to finishes for disinfection, are covered on the page about clinic renovation.

Water, drainage and suction at every chair

The unit gets a cold water supply with its own isolating valve and whatever filter the manufacturer requires. The autoclave and some units need treated water, so we choose the filters and reverse osmosis to the equipment data sheets. How they work and where they are installed is described on the page about water filters.

The cuspidor drain and the suction lines run at a constant fall to the riser or to the suction motor. Dry and wet suction are routed differently, and we take this from the drawing for the chosen system too. The exhaust air from the motor is vented outside if the manufacturer requires it.

All the pipes in the floor are pressure tested before they are covered and photographed with a tape measure, so that a year later you can see where they run. How we pour screed over runs like these and how long it takes to dry is described on the page about floor screed. If the riser is far away and there isn't enough height for the fall, the treatment room is raised on a platform, and this step is allowed for in the layout from the very start.

The compressor and plant room

A dental compressor is noisy, gets hot and runs all day. We put it in a separate plant room together with the suction motor, away from the treatment rooms and the waiting area, and in a residential building away from the wall of the neighbouring apartment as well. The units stand on anti-vibration mounts, and the room has supply and extract air, otherwise in summer the compressor overheats and cuts out more often.

From the compressor to the chairs we run a compressed air line in a material the manufacturer permits, laid to a fall and with a condensate drain. We leave a drain connection for the air dryer. The compressor and the suction get their own breakers in the distribution board, so that their start-up doesn't affect the clinic's lights and sockets.

The X-ray room: shielding to calculation

An X-ray unit emits radiation, and the clinic obtains the permit for it from the regulator itself. The material and thickness of the shielding for the walls, door and window, and for the floor and ceiling where needed, are set by a radiation protection specialist's calculation for the specific unit and the adjoining rooms. We don't choose the thickness by eye and we don't replace the calculation: we install the shielding strictly to it.

Shielding is done with barium plaster or lead sheets. The sheets are lapped, with no gaps at the joints, and back boxes, switches and cable penetrations are covered with lead patches, because radiation escapes through any opening. The door is fitted with shielding to the same calculation. If the permit conditions require an illuminated warning sign above the entrance that lights up when the unit is switched on, we lay its cable together with the shielding. Every layer is photographed before finishing.

A small unit for intraoral X-rays sometimes stands right in the treatment room, while a panoramic unit and a CBCT scanner usually go in a separate room. What is acceptable in your case is decided by the calculation and the permit requirements. After the unit is installed, the clinic carries out the measurements the regulator prescribes.

The sterilisation room and the instrument route

Instruments travel in a loop: from the treatment room to washing, packing, the autoclave and back to the treatment room, now sterile. We plan the sterilisation room so that dirty and clean never meet on the same worktop. On one side are the sink and the ultrasonic bath, on the other the packing area, the autoclave and the cabinet for sterile items.

An autoclave heats the room and releases steam, so the extraction here is more powerful than in the treatment rooms. It gets its own circuit, a drain and treated water, and the sockets go above the worktop with spare capacity for a water distiller and a pouch sealer. The worktop is a single piece, with no joint at the sink.

Finishes, lighting, air and quiet in the treatment room

Treatment room floors are commercial linoleum with welded seams, walls are painted with washable paint, and panels go by the basins. The base under the chair has to be level and strong, because the unit is heavy and is fixed to the floor to the manufacturer's drawing.

For general lighting we use fittings with a high colour rendering index and a neutral colour temperature. The dentist matches the colour of a filling or crown with a shade guide, comparing it with the neighbouring teeth, and warm lamps with poor colour rendering throw that match off. The mouth is lit by the light on the unit, and the ceiling fittings have diffusers and are not placed directly above the face: the patient lies looking up.

When a handpiece is in use, a water aerosol hangs in the air of the room. So we size the ventilation room by room, supply air through a filter and run the extraction on its own branch, not into the corridor. The indoor air conditioning unit is not hung above the chair: a cold draught bothers both the reclining patient and the dentist, whose hands are both busy.

The sound of the drill should not reach the waiting area. Treatment room partitions are taken up to the slab and filled with mineral wool, and the doors have seals all round. What else helps against noise is covered on the page about soundproofing.

How much dental clinic renovation costs in Batumi

Dental clinic renovation with materials costs from 1,590 to 2,160 ₾ per m². The price includes partitions, services, ventilation, and the finishes of the treatment rooms, the sterilisation room and the plant room. Chairs, the compressor and the X-ray unit are not included: the equipment supplier delivers and installs them, while we prepare the premises and the connections for them.

Running services to one chair unit costs from 1,260 to 1,800 ₾: water, drainage, air, suction and cables to the installation drawing. In the estimate this is one line per chair, and the number of chairs has a noticeable effect on where the price per m² ends up. X-ray shielding of walls costs from 300 to 420 ₾ per m², depending on the material and the thickness set by the calculation. Supply and extract ventilation costs from 205 ₾ per m², and a basin in a treatment room or the sterilisation room adds a plumbing point, from 96 ₾. A surgery with two chairs and no X-ray room is closer to the lower end; a clinic with five chairs and a CBCT scanner is closer to the upper end.

From a plan of the premises and the unit drawings we send a preliminary estimate within 24 hours on business days. The final cost is set after the site measurement, the X-ray shielding calculation and agreement on the estimate. The price of each stage is written into the contract, and you pay stage by stage, after signing off each one.