Lighting for a Orthodontic Area

[ayakimov]

At our College we have a Dental School. We are renovating the Orthodontic area, only eight patient chairs, about a 35'x35' room. Patient heads will be pointing to the center of the room, with low walls for privacy. Kinda like a wagon wheel, with a walk around counter at the center.
Any experience for lighting? Original 20 plus year old design had 63, 2-lamp, 2x4 fixtures, acrylic prismatic lenses.
Would uplights be better, or stick with the prismatics? I didn't think parabolics would be good because patient would be looking directly at lamps. Any help would be great. Thanks. Andrew

 

[Senselessticker]

If you have a white tile type ceiling. I'd say reccomend using indirect up-lighting for two reasons: 1) patients will not have to stare directly into light 2) indirect lighting provides for better light distribution (less shadows or dark spots) when dealing with cubical type setup.

Regards,

Sense

 

[IRstuff]

The ambient lighting is more for comfort than anything else. The lighting into the mouth is still mandatory and cannot be gotten from ceiling lights

TTFN