Portable dental cabinet

A compact, lightweight, mobile dental unit, having a low center of gravity, comprising a wheeled cabinet, defining a lower compartment and a planar-top upper compartment, the cabinet compartments having a stacked height sufficient to locate the upper compartment top at a height convenient for dental operations use by either a standing or sitting dentist, the lower compartment containing a source of compressed air comprising a horizontally disposed tank of the type offered for use with self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, a vacuum chamber, and a vacuum pump connected to the vacuum chamber so as to draw gas from the vacuum chamber while permitting liquids and solids to be retained in the vacuum chamber, the upper compartment containing a storage space, a pressurizable water reservoir, and an amalgamator for preparing dental cement, the unit further comprising a first dental handpiece, a first dental handpiece pneumatic drive, first flexible pneumatic conduit means leading from the source of compressed air to the first dental handpiece pneumatic drive, first flexible water conduit means leading from the pressurizable water reservoir to the dental handpiece the unit further comprising a foldable patient support for supporting the patient in a supine position, and support frame means removably mounted on said cabinet for carrying the foldable patient support and for supporting the patient at a convenient operating elevation, and at a location spaced apart, if desired, from the cabinet, said frame means defining a recess sufficiently large to permit the frame means to be placed in a surrounding, overlying position on and around the wheeled mobile dental unit cabinet for transporting the cabinet and patient support, and to permit the frame means and patient support to be removed from contact with the wheeled cabinet for patient support use.