Equipment Maintenance and Care
Keeping the machines alive: compressors, vacuum, sterilizers, handpieces, chairs, sensors, and the log that proves you did it.
Badge you earn
- 7lessons
- 75minutes of reading
- 28check questions
- Freeno account needed
Lessons
Work through them in order. Each one ends with a knowledge check that records your progress.
The Maintenance Mindset and the Log That Proves It
How to think about maintenance as an owner: intervals, ownership, the IFU as the real authority, and the log that turns all of it into an asset.
Start this lesson →Caring for the Compressor and Vacuum
The practical care routine for the air compressor and vacuum system, including the chemistry compatibility trap that damages separators.
Start this lesson →Sterilizer Care and Water Quality
Water quality, chamber and gasket care, safe cleaning agents, loading practice, drying, and the signs a sterilizer has reached the end.
Start this lesson →Handpiece Care, Where Practices Lose the Most Money
The lubricate, purge, sterilize sequence, over-lubrication as a real failure mode, automated systems versus manual, chucks, electric motors, heat, and the rotation math that changes the economics.
Start this lesson →Chairs, Delivery Units, and the Operatory
What the wrong disinfectant does to vinyl, how tired chairs behave, waterline and delivery unit care, and the weekly walk through that catches problems while they are still cheap.
Start this lesson →Imaging Equipment and Sensor Care
Sensor cable care, barriers, phosphor plates, x-ray head drift, panoramic and CBCT quality assurance, intraoral scanner tips, and what has to be documented.
Start this lesson →Building the Maintenance Calendar
The assignable maintenance calendar: how to build it from your own IFUs, who owns what, staff versus service tech, contracts versus time and materials, onboarding, and resale.
Start this lesson →How this course works
Work through the lessons in order. Each one ends with exercises you can do in your own office and a few short questions to check yourself. Answer the check and the lesson is recorded as done, in this browser, with no account involved.
Finish every lesson and you can print a completion record for this course. The course also counts toward the certifications, which are the larger thing: several courses plus a timed comprehensive exam, ending in a certificate whose reference code anyone can verify.
This guide is educational content and does not constitute legal, financial, tax, or clinical advice. Laws and regulations vary by state and change over time. Consult your own dental-specific attorney, CPA, and state dental board before acting.