THE IMPORTANCE OF ORIGINAL SPARE PARTS. BY KAVO DENTAL Leave a comment
QUALITY ALWAYS PAYS
We’re all familiar with the phrase “buy cheap, buy twice” but we often forget this applies to the smaller things we buy too.
While you may have decided to invest in good quality high-speed lab drives, turbines and or contra-angle handpieces, when it comes to yearly or ad-hoc maintenance, it’s easy to forget to ask for manufacturer original spare parts for any repairs. After all, we all want things done as quickly and easily as possible.
TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE
Just the thought of planning a yearly service for your instruments can add dread, inconvenience and cost to your to-do list. However, it can also save you a lot of time, money and hassle in the long term.
Getting your instruments checked and serviced by an approved professional ensures that there are no accidents waiting to happen and assures you of continued best performance, time and time again.
Choosing to replace parts with manufacturer’s original spare parts means that your instrument remains exactly as it was designed and produced in the first place – with each part running like clockwork in conjunction with every other part.
THE DEVIL IN THE DETAIL
When it comes to replacing parts of a handpiece, be it a cartridge, ball bearing or even just an ‘o’ ring, if a part is available at a cheaper price than the manufacturer’s original parts, then that must be for a reason. Usually that reason is because it has been manufactured more cheaply in the first place which could indicate that the quality is inferior.
A manufacturer’s original parts, on the other hand, have been designed and made to optimise the performance, safety and reliability of your instruments. None of which you would be willing to compromise, given the choice.
As Jason Jewitt, Manager at Mi-Tec Handpiece Repairs says: “Just like a car, a dental handpiece these days is a high-grade machine, built using advanced technology and carefully honed parts. Each of those parts needs work together so you can continue to rely on the instrument you’re using.”
Furthermore, today’s dental handpieces are produced with such precision that there is no margin for error, so any measurement deviations of any of the parts – even of fractions of a millimetre – can adversely affect the instrument’s ability to perform to its optimum capacity, or even affect its conformity as a CE marked product.
CHAIN REACTION
Any piece of equipment or dental handpiece has been designed and manufactured with myriad parts, all designed to work with each other in order to optimise that instrument’s performance. It’s like a carefully crafted chain and each link has a bearing on the next.
Of course, this includes not just the outer casing and the internal parts but also the consumable items needed to keep the system operating – i.e. oil or spray and the maintenance process. Choosing the best component for each means you’ll never compromise on performance.
As manufacturers, it’s up to us to ensure that chain is never broken and that all the links perform as well as they were intended to. That way, we deliver you an instrument that works perfectly, again and again and again.
KaVo are delighted to be working with MI-Tec to provide the very best repair, servicing and maintenance of your KaVo handpieces. For more details on the special offers available, please contact Jason Jewitt at MI-Tec. T: 01253 600083 E: KaVoRepairs@ddgroup.com / info@kavo.co.uk
