Today, every office that we are designing has to meet ADA compliance regulations and must anticipate high tech equipment introduction throughout the office space. We have spent many hours in research and investigation on these and have developed design solutions that meet these requirements. Be sure your dental facility has incorporated these two considerations. If your office space plans are not ADA compliant you may not be allowed to pull building permits until these compliance issues are satisfied. If the technology is not integrated into your facility for current or future use, your office will be a short term solution full of mobile carts and wires.
Dentists still undersize their space requirements.
Be sure to secure enough square footage to accomplish your facility goals. Many dentists are still operating out of an old paradigm of square footage requirements. Remember that OSHA and ADA have entered into the designing picture and the result has been an increase in square footage. If you are concerned about losing an option on a lease or piece of property, then qualify your commitment with as long as it is suitable for my project and get it evaluated as quickly as possible so that you KNOW this is the optimum choice for your project. While I can t imagine today that any dentist considering a dental facility in his or her future would want to jump in with both feet before evaluating it thoroughly .