Careclave®

Product Overview
Introducing the Careclave® – a revolutionary instrument reprocessing solution brought directly to your practice. This 4-in-1 system takes care of cleaning & disinfection, maintenance, sterilization, and documentation, all in one device.

Redefining Instrument Reprocessing - The Careclave® 4-in-1 Solution

Over 1500 dental practices have already placed their trust in the Careclave® 4-in-1 solution from Melag. They benefit daily from its time, cost, and space-saving capabilities for reprocessing and caring for dental instruments while ensuring compliance with RKI regulations. The Careclave® is a revolutionary device that combines the entire reprocessing process in one, allowing it to clean, disinfect, care for, and sterilise your instruments efficiently. It even takes care of documenting the sterilisation parameters, streamlining the entire process - this remarkable device can clean and disinfect up to 8 dental transfer instruments, prophylaxis handpieces or ultrasonic scaler tips, making them readily available for the next patient, in just 16 minutes.

Please note that the manufacturer provides professional installation and personal operational instruction services for the autoclave exclusively in Germany.

Key Features
Class B autoclave for sterilising up to 11 kg in record time
Revolutionary 4-in-1 solution for dental practices
Unites the entire process of instrument reprocessing
Cleans, disinfects, maintains, sterilises and documents with just one device
RKI-compliant, cost- and time-saving preparation and care of contra-angle handpieces
Already in use in more than 1,500 dental practices
Offers maximum safety for patients and the practice team
Reprocessing of up to 200 straight and contra-angle handpieces and other instruments in one day
Reliably protects all instruments from wear
Requires up to 45% less space as several units are combined into one
Significantly reduces operating costs & reduces the need for instrument sets
Allows reprocessing of 8 hollow instruments in only 16-18 minutes
Cycle costs less than one euro for electricity, water, compressed air and oil
Care and reprocessing per handpiece costs less than 12 cents
Double jacket chamber concept and algorithm-controlled drying (DRYtelligence)

1. Cleaning & Disinfection
In only 16 minutes, the Careclave® enables the cleaning and disinfection of up to 8 dental transmission instruments, prophylaxis handpieces or ultrasonic scaler tips.

2. Lubrication
The Carebox ensures perfect care of your transmission instruments and minimizes wear. And that is not all: The unique ADDcare station also performs the lubrication of the chuck system directly at Careclave after the end of a program.

3. Sterilization (Class B)
The Careclave® incorporates patented DRYtelligence and Double-Jacket technology, delivering all the features you seek in a modern Class B steam sterilizer. It can efficiently sterilize loads of up to 11 kg on 8 trays or 4 MELAstore boxes in record time. Thanks to its well-designed chamber concept, instrument preparation and care in the Carebox, alongside simultaneous sterilization of additional instruments on short trays, are achievable in a single cycle.

4. Documentation & Approval
ProControl offers fast, secure, and paperless digital verification of successful instrument reprocessing, all conveniently displayed on the large touch screen — no need for extra software. For fully compliant and comprehensive documentation, the protocols are stored on the MELAG USB stick or the practice network.