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Are you considering selling your panorex dental machine? Maybe you are upgrading to cone beam, consolidating practices, or retiring. For whatever reason, you may have a dental panorex machine that you want to get rid of. With everything else on your plate during an equipment transition, where do you even start? Here are a few guidelines on how to offload that old dental X-ray machine and how to obtain the information that is often required to make the sale.

Whether you’re a new dental practice just starting out, or you’re trying to keep your financials under control, buying certified pre-owned Planmeca X-ray machines makes sense from both a budget and a quality perspective. You can find these high-quality machines in near-perfect condition at 40-60% off the price of buying new when you shop certified pre-owned with Renew Digital. Why is this such a good idea? Let’s take a look at some of the top benefits.

Today’s dental digital panorex can find more than just tooth decay. They can also detect critical medical conditions. As a dental professional, this ability is vital to your important role in overall patient health. You can warn patients better than ever before of potential health risks. After all, the average patient visits their dentist twice per year, but only visits their primary care physician every five to 10 years. This means you’re the patient’s first line of defense in managing their overall health. Let’s take a look at this in more detail.

Used dental equipment for sale is plentiful thanks to sites such as eBay, dental blogs, Facebook, and other used equipment websites. But before you buy, you should be aware of the many hidden costs for both buyer and seller in a transaction of this type.

You would think by now that most dental practices have made the move to digital panorex X-ray systems. But every day here at Renew Digital, we speak with practices that are still capturing X-rays using traditional film. In fact, a recent blog post cites that 66% of dentists use digital X-rays. That means that nearly 34% of dentists still use film!

The latest advancements in technology have allowed for more and more dental practices to upgrade from film to digital dental X-ray machines. And, in recent years, we’ve even seen a huge push from 2D digital X-ray machines to cone beam. This is great news for patients who are getting better diagnoses and treatment plans thanks to the additional information available to practitioners through these higher-quality images.

Thanks to increased public discussion about radiation safety, patients today have greater concerns about their dentist using an extraoral dental X-ray machine than they did in the past. This is despite reassurance that a dental X-ray machine exposes them to far less radiation than other types of medical equipment such as a medical CT scan. As a dentist, it’s up to you to train your staff to reduce patient exposure to radiation and to educate patients about their actual risk.

Graduating from dental school is certainly something that brings great pride. It took years of hard work, not only in dental school but in your undergraduate studies before that. Now that you’re about to strike out on your own, it’s important to consider how to manage the debt load you incurred while a student and the debt you must take on if you choose to start your own practice.

Patient preparation is an important part of the success of capturing a 2D X-ray using a refurbished Planmeca ProMax machine from Renew Digital. You or a member of your dental staff should provide the patient with sufficient instruction and ensure that he or she understands the requests before moving forward with obtaining the image.

When it comes to taking X-ray images of your dental patients, you need equipment that performs at the same level of excellence that you do. SCARA technology, which stands for Selective Compliance Articulated Robot Arm, provides you with exactly that. Planmeca, a world leader in developing and marketing premier dental imaging systems, developed SCARA for use with their Planmeca ProMax X-ray units to achieve complex, flexible, and precise movements during X-ray rotation. The result: clear, accurate, and consistently high-quality maxillofacial images.