Forest Dental.

Forest is an operatory equipment line that DentalEZ acquired in December 2018. DentalEZ's announcement, dated December 21, 2018, and the matching December 26 press release, called Forest a 45-year-old manufacturer in Hillsboro, Oregon, known for simple and reliable equipment. The release said Hank Barton, who bought Forest in 2004, and the Hillsboro leadership would stay, and that the brand would continue inside the DentalEZ portfolio and go to market as Forest equipment.

Current product pages live on dentalez.com. The Forest 6400 page describes CareGlide, which DentalEZ says lets the team reposition the chair for wheelchair access, radiographs, and cleaning. It states a 525-pound lift capacity for the patient and 650 pounds when the delivery unit and light are counted. Heat and massage are described as adjustable. Positioning uses digital sensors rather than a mechanical memory, and DentalEZ includes a monitoring feature it calls Aeras Intel. Paint and upholstery are offered as dual color choices. The ergonomics section cites a 36.5-inch high position.

Delivery is a separate choice from the chair. The IC chair-mount unit is described with a pneumatic control block, a three-way syringe, three handpiece positions, individual handpiece pressure and water-coolant adjustment, and a flush. The Euro control head pivots to a transthoracic position over the patient. The 7010 and 7020 are cart and rear-mount systems. DentalEZ also lists a Forest 3486 delivery system by name. A package page shows the 6400 sold with the IC unit, an LED or halogen light, and a cuspidor.

The LED lights on that package page, models 9073 and 9074, are described with 10 LED lamps, autoclavable handles, three-axis movement, and a color temperature from 4,200 to 6,000 Kelvin. Halogen models 9083 and 9093 are still listed, with a stated shade-matching range of 4,200 to 5,500 Kelvin. Cuspidors on the same page include a deluxe ceramic bowl with a touch lever and a simpler manual bowl. Installation instructions hosted by DentalEZ give the Forest address as 6200 NE Cherry Drive, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124, and the phone number 800-423-3555. One of those sheets names DTE Oregon, Inc. at that address.

DentalEZ states a 20-year limited warranty on specific Standard IC parts: air and water Ts, flow valves, the pneumatic control, and distribution blocks. That sentence is about the delivery unit's under-hood components. It is not a published 20-year warranty on the 6400 chair, the upholstery, or the light. Ask for the chair warranty as its own document. The installation sheet also says field modifications that change electrical or mechanical safety are not sanctioned by Forest.

Forest suits a practice buying a new operatory package and choosing a delivery layout at the same time as the chair. The IC mount is the chair-attached unit. The Euro head is for doctors who want the handpieces to swing over the patient. Cart and rear-mount 7010 and 7020 systems keep the unit off the chair. Read the delivery system guide before you pick from a photo.

The 6400's published 525-pound patient capacity, CareGlide, and high-rise position are the facts to test against your operators and your patients. Color options are a real Forest trait in the DentalEZ copy, including powder-coat and carbon-fiber plastic choices on the IC unit. They do not change the plumbing.

Offices that want a dealer-quoted electromechanical or hydraulic alternative can look at Summit Dental Systems. Offices maintaining an older Pelton chair should use Pelton and Crane's support site rather than assume Forest parts fit it. Both brands sit in the equipment directory with DentalEZ.

Forest is a DentalEZ product line, not a separate company you call at a different factory for a new chair. A-dec and Midmark remain independent operatory brands. Summit sells Marathon and Daytona packages through Henry Schein, Patterson, and Benco and publishes a five-year warranty statement. Forest's published long warranty, on the pages reviewed, is the 20-year limited warranty on named pneumatic parts of the Standard IC, not a blanket term for the whole room.

Chair capacity is one numbered difference. Spirit 3300 documentation from Pelton states 450 pounds. The Forest 6400 page states 525 pounds for the patient and 650 pounds with the unit and light. Those numbers come from each manufacturer. They are not a clinical study, and a used chair may no longer match the original rating.

The light decision belongs in the operatory light guide. Forest's package page still offers LED and halogen heads with published Kelvin ranges. A loupe-mounted headlamp is a different product and is not part of this chair package. The chair guide is the patient chair. Do not use it to choose the operator stool.

Quote the chair, the delivery layout, the light, and the cuspidor as line items. A fixed IC package is not a 7020 rear-delivery room. If you need a scaler or an electric motor in the unit, the IC page says those are options beyond the three handpiece positions, so they have to be on the order. Confirm the 20-year IC parts warranty against the current warranty PDF, and ask what covers the 6400 mechanism, upholstery, and light.

Service contacts published on the Forest installation instructions are the Hillsboro address and 800-423-3555. DentalEZ is the catalog. Ask which entity invoices you and which technician covers your state. The instruction sheet warns that field modifications affecting electrical or mechanical safety are not sanctioned. That matters if a contractor wants to extend an umbilical or swap a control board.

Training is not described as a standing course calendar on the pages used for this profile. Budget time for the installer to review foot controls, CareGlide, and the water system with the team. If the operatory light will be used for shade matching, look at the published Kelvin range and then evaluate a shade tab in the room, which is the checklist in the light guide.