The Apple Tree Mobile Dental Office includes everything you would find in a typical dental office, and includes many new advanced technologies, such as digital x-rays, plasma arc light curing units and Statim sterilization equipment. Each mobile office is comprised of four units, a dental chair, an operator's cart, an assistant's cart and an x-ray/supply unit. The A-dec Company designed the equipment using a three-wheeled base and standard parts to reduce maintenance and repair problems.

The Apple Tree Mobile Offices are transported in a large customized truck, called a "Multi-Site Delivery Vehicle," or "MDV". This truck holds up to three mobile offices at one time. Daily routes are based on mapping software to determine the equipment pick-up and drop- off sequence. The drivers typically work the second shift, i.e., 4 pm to midnight. At the end of each clinical day, the MDV driver picks up the mobile offices and delivers them to the facilities on the next day's schedule. If there are any maintenance needs for specific units, they can be swapped with other units, and Apple Tree can have extra units in the warehouse.

The truck that transports the equipment is scaled for the number of units needed to be transported daily -- ideally at least 2 operatories -- 14 ft to 24 ft bed. Lighting is needed in the truck bed. The equipment is secured by hardware in the truck floor and walls. A source of heat for the truck box is required in areas where freezing is a problem. The truck does not require a generator or shorepower.

The Apple Tree Mobile Office carries a wide variety of equipment and instruments for various preventive, restorative, endodontics, oral surgery, and prosthodontics procedures. Digital x-ray equipment has been used for over four years. Each dentist brings a laptop computer to the facilities each day. At the end of the day, the dentist downloads all the radiographs to a disc, which is taken back to the central office and loaded onto the company server by office staff. Dental providers have access to radiographs for their own patients, and all patient radiographs are available on the company server if needed to forward to insurance companies

Automobiles are needed for assistants to transport bin systems and other supplies from central office to the clinic site. The company either can buy or lease vehicles, or assistants use their own cars and later are reimbursed for mileage. Cell phones for mobile dental personnel are a necessity and are required by the Minnesota Board of Dentistry when providing on-site dental services.