W&H’s Latest Innovation in Sterilization is the Compact Lexa Mini

W&H’s Latest Innovation in Sterilization is the Compact Lexa Mini | Image Credit: © W&H

W&H’s newest sterilizer for the North American market, Lexa Mini, is a versatile Class B rapid sterilizer that offers several advantages with its wide range of applications. The unit can be used as a complimentary device for fast sterilization of handpieces and as an emergency back-up to tabletop sterilizers.

The Lexa Mini sterilizer focuses on what matters most to a busy practice—reliability, efficiency in sterilization, and safety, W&H states. Utilizing the same cutting-edge technology as their award-winning full size Lexa sterilizers, this compact version is designed to fit perfectly into a dental practice’s workflow. It offers the same innovative features of fresh water for every cycle and closed-door drying, ensuring completely dry and sterile loads.

The company’s primary goal is to create advanced technology and equipment that continuously improve safety, efficiency, and patient experience in dental practices, and the new sterilizer was designed with this in mind.

Lexa Mini offers EliTrace providing enhanced traceability with an advanced documentation system that offers full traceability down to a single instrument. Cycle documentation is automatically saved to a USB stick that results in a higher level of safety for both a practice and its patients, according to the company.

Efficient Sterilization to Enhance the Patient Experience
Streamlining sterilization enhances efficiency and patient experience. Lexa Mini is more than just a sterilizer, it’s designed to be the heartbeat of a dental practice, keeping every operation running smoothly and efficiently while integrating seamlessly into a sterilization area by optimizing a workflow.

“We're excited to introduce the Lexa Mini as part of our ongoing efforts to transform and innovate the sterilization market. Similar to our other Lexa models, it features state-of-the-art technology that uses fresh water for every cycle and the essential closed-door drying, ensuring every load is completely dry and ready to use,” Rick Pinero, general manager of the dental equipment business unit for W&H, says in a press release. “These important features are becoming increasingly crucial for infection prevention and are what truly differentiate us in the market.”

The new sterilizer’s features deliver speed, versatility and enhanced convenience.

This rapid sterilizer has faster cycle times compared to other compact sterilizers in its class and can achieve complete sterilization in as little as 23 minutes, including drying time for maximum efficiency. The closed-door drying technology delivers bone dry loads, ready for immediate use at the end of every cycle, minimizing the risk of cross contamination, according to W&H.

Additionally, it is designed to meet diverse practice needs with cycles for wrapped, unwrapped, cassette, and low-temperature loads. It offers 2 or 3 rack options for additional load flexibility, comes in both 5 liter and 3 liter models, and features both a vacuum pump for setups without an air line and an air ejector for those with an air line.

Auto drain and auto fill are standard features of Lexa Mini. Auto fill adds convenience by ensuring fresh water delivery for every cycle, while auto drain saves time for staff, making the manual process of emptying dirty water bottles a thing of the past, streamlining the sterilization process.