Most dental offices are small businesses, and their equipment leaves in modest batches: an upgrade to a new practice management system, a remodel, a move, a merger or a retirement. Larger health systems and mixed clinical equipment are covered on our medical equipment recycling page. This page is about the dental office.
- Front desk and operatory computers, chairside monitors and keyboards
- Practice management servers, backup drives and NAS units
- Intraoral cameras, intraoral scanners and their carts
- Printers, phones, routers and patient-facing tablets
- Curing lights and other small electronic dental devices
- Batteries from handpieces, cordless devices and UPS backups
Sharps, amalgam and other regulated dental waste go to a medical or hazardous waste hauler, not through electronics recycling. Clean and disinfect devices that were used in patient care before pickup.
Charts, treatment notes and insurance details live on the server, but copies end up on operatory computers, scanners and backup drives too. We list each data-bearing device, shred or wipe it, and give you a certificate of destruction by serial number for your HIPAA records. Practices that want drives destroyed before they leave can book on-site hard drive shredding.
We schedule pickups around patient hours. A practice with only a few devices can also bring them to our Sacramento drop-off and ask for a certificate there. Tell us whether you are upgrading, moving or closing, and roughly how many computers, cameras and drives are involved, and we will suggest the simpler option. Request a quote to plan either one.
A dental practice replaces operatory computers, chairside monitors, intraoral cameras, scanners and the server that runs its practice management software every few years. We recycle that equipment and destroy the patient data it holds, whether you're upgrading one office, moving, or closing a practice.
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Yes, if it fits in a vehicle. A practice with a few computers or a box of old cameras can bring them to our Sacramento drop-off at 3921 Pell Circle and ask for a certificate of recycling and destruction. For a remodel, a move or a full practice cleanout, a scheduled pickup around patient hours is usually easier.
Electronic dental equipment can. Intraoral cameras and scanners, curing lights, cordless handpiece batteries, chairside monitors and their computers are recycled with your other e-waste once they have been cleaned and disinfected. Sharps, amalgam and other regulated dental waste go through a licensed medical waste or amalgam service, not electronics recycling.
Treat every device that touched your practice software as a patient record. That includes the server, operatory and front desk computers, scanners, backup drives and some printers. Before recycling, the storage should be shredded or wiped to NIST 800-88, and you should keep a certificate of destruction that lists each device by serial number. We handle both steps and give you the certificate for your HIPAA file.
List what is transferring to the buyer and what is leaving. Equipment that stays with the practice keeps its data under the new owner, so settle that in the sale. For everything that leaves, we destroy the storage, recycle the hardware and give you certificates of destruction and recycling. Confirm your own record-retention obligations for patient charts before any drive is destroyed.