High speed and slow speed are often treated as two separate parts of the operatory workflow. Dr. Marc Lai takes a different approach: he uses one NOVA 1:5 across five working speeds, from tooth preparation to polishing and even deep caries removal.
With the All Speed Red NOVA 1:5 and on a Bien-Air electric motor system, you can change speed without having to change the handpiece. This means less inventory, less maintenance and repairs, and more money saved.
The red dot on the NOVA identifies a speed-increasing 1:5 contra-angle. The handpiece multiplies the rotation of the bur via the electric motor, allowing the bur to reach high-speed operating ranges. Here’s the kicker: when you multiply the speed by 5, you have to divide the torque by the same number. For our competitors, this means that you may lose the necessary torque needed to do slow speed procedures with a high speed handpiece. Not with Bien-Air. Our patented smart logic system gives you the necessary torque needed to do slow speed procedures with a high-speed handpiece.
That is why it is useful to think of the NOVA 1:5 as more than simply a “High-Speed” handpiece. Paired with the right Bien-Air electric system and slow speed friction grip burs, it becomes the All Speed handpiece.
Dr. Lai describes himself as a “five-speed kind of guy.” Rather than treating the NOVA 1:5 as a single-speed instrument, he changes the speed to match what he is doing clinically.
Ultimately, you control the speed based on what feels right. Bien-Air’s electric motor systems gives you the freedom to choose your speed easily and efficiently, regardless of what system you’re using.
The practical idea behind All Speed Red is simple: speed becomes a setting rather than a reason to automatically reach for another attachment.
Dentistry rewards precision. An electric motor gives you power and control to perfect your preps. Bien-Air takes it one step further with our patented smart logic system. That technological feat is what makes Dr. Lai’s five-speed workflow possible: he can move from aggressive preparation to refinement, polishing, and caries removal without treating every step as a separate handpiece category using slow speed, friction grip burs.
Instead of changing handpieces as the clinical task changes, Dr. Marc Lai changes the motor speed—keeping the same NOVA 1:5 in hand from preparation through refinement and deep caries removal.
Explore the NOVA 1:5 and Bien-Air electric systems that bring high-speed performance and controlled lower-speed workflows together.
