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In 2012, Planmeca signed a record-
breaking contract to deliver three fully
digital teaching environments to Saudi
Arabian dental institutions. The delivery
agreement included more than 1,000
dental units in addition to simulation units,
2D and 3D X-ray systems and an innovative
software platform.
In 2013, yet another significant contract
was signed, as Planmeca’s subsidiary
Triangle Furniture Systems Inc.
received an order from the Saudi Arabian
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University to
furnish altogether 234 rooms located in
their brand new teaching environment.
“These rooms include 152 treatment
rooms in an open clinical area, 32
postgraduate rooms, 6 screening rooms,
6 X-ray and viewing rooms, 12 specialist
rooms, 18 treatment rooms located in
the expansion of the existing facility as
well as 8 rooms in the KASCH Hospital,
a hospital on the university campus”,
explains Ms Annie Roy, Global Dental
School Representative at Triangle Furniture
Systems.
Even though the deal was closed only
recently, Triangle has been involved in
the new teaching environment’s layout
planning since 2009. “I visited Saudi Arabia
for the first time in February 2010 with
Planmeca University team. The project
began even before that, but there was an
issue with the first layout, as it didn’t provide solution. Also, different users have specific
enough rooms to fit all the desired dental
units”, says Roy. “So we had to redesign the
layout completely, which also meant that
the project’s architect had to redo all the
planning. At the same time as Planmeca
proposed a new layout for the university,
Triangle proposed cabinets to support it.
Open clinical room About
Changing the layout caused delays in the
final completion of the project, but the
customers preferred taking the necessary
time to build the state-of-the-art teaching
environment they were wishing for.”
Triangle proposed two different
cabinetry options for the same layout, one
with side cabinets and another one with
a rear cabinet. “The university decided
to go with the rear cabinet version with
some support side cabinets in order to
get a more intimate feeling, especially
for the open clinical area.” The treatment
rooms are located on two separate floors
– a male floor and a female floor, both of
which comprise 76 open treatment rooms
identical in design.
Roy specifies that the clinical layout must
be planned with the complete treatment
workflow in mind. The organisation of
supplies, the instruments management
system, the waste organisation and
the sterilisation process are all equally
important factors. “You need to visualise
how things are going from the beginning of
the day to the beginning of each procedure,
during the procedure, and even after the
patient has left – when the student or
teacher is still in the room. Everything has
to be thought of and the exact movements
analysed in order to find a truly efficient
needs and the environment has to fit all of
them.”
All of the cabinets will be preassembled
in Canada by Triangle and shipped by sea
to Saudi Arabia, where Planmeca’s Saudi
Arabian distributor CARE will take care
of the installation. The installation will be
completed in summer 2014 and teaching
in the new facilities will begin next fall.
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King Saud bin Abdulaziz
University for Health Sciences and
College of Dentistry,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The university was established under
the umbrella of the National Guard and
the Ministry of Higher Education. It is
one of the most modern universities in
the region and the entire Arab world,
specialising in health sciences. The
College of Dentistry in Riyadh has five
departments: Maxillofacial Surgery and
Diagnostic Science, Preventive Dental
Science Department, Restorative Dental
Science, Prosthetic Dental Science
Department and Dental Auxiliary.
www.ksau-hs.edu.sa
Introducing
Ms Annie Roy
Global Dental School Representative/
Project Manager for Dental Schools,
Triangle Furniture Systems, Inc.
“I have been working for Triangle since
1999. I started my career in the company
in customer service and internal sales,
but then transferred to R&D because my
background is in industrial design. After
having worked as a project manager for
the R&D department and then as R&D
Director, I began my current job as Project
Manager for dental schools worldwide.”