Design Criteria for Shipboard Dental Spaces.

The functional design requirements of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery for the following types of shipboard dental spaces are presented Dental administrative office dental officers office and consultation room dental patient waiting room and instruction center dental linen issue room. The technical report takes into account the existing equipment limitations and shipboard constraints. Using the present state-of-the-art as a baseline, an outline of an R and D program will be developed. Accomplishment of such a program is expected to reduce or to eliminate, in future ships, the effects of the existing equipment limitations and shipboard constraints. The R and D program will be developed as the design criteria are worked out and will be incorporated in the final report. Modified author abstract