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Medical and Scientific

Dental and Ophthalmic

Our experience relevant to the dental and ophthalmic arenas includes the development of professional and self-care devices such as personal health products, precision delivery devices, surgical instruments, specialist furniture, dental cleaning and sterilisation equipment, radiotherapy and imaging machines.

Our rigorous product development process is designed to deliver creative and commercially effective solutions for our clients.

With an experienced multidisciplinary development team that comprises specialist product researchers, human factors experts, industrial designers, mechanical engineers, electronics engineers, software developers and prototyping experts, we offer a proven product development capability for either discrete stages of work or a full turnkey service.

We help our clients to create commercially successful products that are trusted, enhance the experience and deliver health benefits to patients around the globe

Dental and ophthalmic healthcare involves products for specialists as well as daily use products for consumers around the world. In all cases users need to trust the product and be reassured by using it.

With significant design and development experience across the medical and scientific and consumer sectors, DCA is unusually well placed to successfully support clients in developing products to meet the needs of the specialist and their patient - the consumer.

Our multidisciplinary development capabilities, rigorous evidence-based approach and broad medical device and consumer healthcare expertise make us an ideal partner for the design of products for dental or ophthalmic applications.

Creating reassuring experiences for eye and oral care

Designing for specialists and their patients

For all specialist equipment, it is vital that the device can perform its functions precisely and reliably, with ease, time after time. To achieve such designs requires thorough engineering development, which is a core expertise at DCA.

We appreciate that it is also important that patients believe and trust the equipment and are not unduly intimidated by their experiences with it.

For these reasons, we integrate design researchers and human factors specialists within our project teams, alongside the creative and technical engineers, to build an understanding of the range of factors that will influence the design to deliver solutions that specialists and their patients trust.

We are very experienced at balancing the many factors needed to support our clients in making the design decisions needed to achieve successful products.

Oral and eye care at home

Oral hygiene and eye care is a personal matter for all of us and we use a variety of products to help us with this. Increasingly individuals are seeking better ways to achieve their personal care that fits well with their busy daily lives. There are also particular conditions that arise and require specific care and that can impact personal routines.

Gaining a deep understanding and meaningful insights into the circumstances affecting how users carry out such personal care, what impacts it, and the results they seek, is important in developing solutions that deliver benefits that users will appreciate.

DCA has extensive experience in researching and taking such evidence-based considerations into account and developing commercially successful and award-winning solutions for healthcare products of many kinds.

Helping our clients achieve success through great product design