Spinoff story

Portable Dental System

A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.

About this technology

Overview

Portable dental system provides dental care in isolated communities. System includes a patient's chair and a dentist's stool, an x-ray machine and a power unit, all of which fold into compact packages. A large yellow pumpkin" is a collapsible compressed air tank. Portable system has been used successfully in South America in out of the way communities with this back-packable system and in American nursing homes. *This product is no longer manufactured. "