A-dec’s Inventions for Field Dentistry—A Legacy of Smart Engineering
September 18, 2014
When dental professionals travel around the world to perform charitable work and treat patients with limited access to care, they typically face one very basic problem: How can they set up a reliable dental unit and chair in a location that may not even have running water or electricity? This was one of the problems that A-dec founder Ken Austin set out to solve almost 50 years ago when he was a young member of his community’s Rotary club.