Dental surgeries, imaging rooms and sterilisation built around the chairs and the services behind them, with the MEP delivered by our own team and the layout planned for Ministry of Health licensing.
Dar Anan fits out dental clinics across Riyadh, from single-chair practices to multi-surgery dental centres. We take a bare commercial unit and deliver the complete clinic: the operatories, the chair services in the floor and ceiling, the compressor and suction plant, shielded imaging rooms, the sterilisation room, and the reception and waiting areas patients see first.
A dental clinic is one of the most service-heavy fit-outs in healthcare fit-out. Every chair needs compressed air, suction, water, drainage and power at a fixed point in the floor, and every one of those has to be in the right place before the floor is finished. Because our MEP team is in-house, the chair services, the plant room and the finishes are coordinated on one set of drawings and delivered by one site team.
The dental chair sets out the room. Each operatory is sized for the chair, the dentist and the assistant working on either side, with clear access for patients and room for cabinetry, a clinical hand-wash basin and any intraoral X-ray unit. The chair's service box position comes from the supplier's template, and the drainage, air, suction, water and power are brought to it before the floor is laid.
Typical scope on a dental clinic includes:
New dental clinics. We start with a check of the unit: drainage points, electrical capacity, floor-to-slab height and where the plant room can go. Then the layout is set against the MOH requirements for your facility category before design freeze.
Adding surgeries. New operatories tied into the existing compressor and suction plant, with the plant capacity checked first and the tie-ins scheduled outside clinic hours.
Refurbishments. New finishes, cabinetry and services in a clinic that may need to keep seeing patients, phased so working surgeries stay available.
For the licensing side, see our guide to clinic fit-out requirements in Saudi Arabia. For budgets, see clinic fit-out cost in Riyadh. Opening a larger multi-specialty facility? See medical center fit-out.
Surgeries laid out for four-handed dentistry, with clinical cabinetry, hand-wash basins, operating lights and privacy for patients, sized to the chair you have chosen.
Compressed air, suction, water, drainage and power brought to each chair's service box to the supplier's template, set out before the floor is finished.
A ventilated, accessible plant room for the dental compressor and central suction, with pipework, drainage and electrical supplies sized for the number of chairs.
Imaging rooms with shielding built to the radiation protection specialist's design, including lead-lined doors, frames and viewing panels, with care at every junction and penetration.
A one-way dirty-to-clean layout from receiving and washing through packing to sterile storage, with services for washer-disinfectors, ultrasonic cleaners and autoclaves.
Seamless flooring with coved skirtings, cleanable wall finishes and sealed ceilings in clinical areas; a welcoming reception and waiting area; HVAC, lighting and fire systems.
Most problems in a new dental clinic trace back to coordination: a chair service point in the wrong place, a drain without enough fall, a plant room with no ventilation. We keep the MEP in-house and coordinate it with the chair supplier and your healthcare designer, so those details are resolved on drawings before the floor goes down.
Floor services are set out to the chair supplier's template and checked before screeding, not adjusted afterwards.
Room sizes, flows and the sterilisation layout are reviewed against MOH requirements before design freeze.
Compressed air, suction, shielding surveys and fire systems are tested on dates in the programme, not left to the final week.
From the unit survey to the first patient, with the approvals and equipment decisions made early.
We survey the unit, check drainage, electrical capacity and floor-to-slab height, and agree the number of chairs, the imaging and the services you plan to offer.
The layout is checked against MOH requirements, and chair, imaging and sterilisation equipment data is coordinated into the MEP drawings and the shielding design.
Design submissions to MOH, Balady and Civil Defence, with the radiation equipment authorisation running in parallel, before construction starts.
Partitions, floor services and first fix, plant room, shielding, ceilings and hygienic finishes, then cabinetry and second fix, with a dedicated site manager.
Systems tested and commissioned, support for the shielding survey and licensing inspection, a formal snagging walk, and a 12-month defects liability period.
Healthcare buildings delivered by Dar Anan in the Riyadh region.
Dental chairs and imaging units are the same worldwide. The approvals, the buildings and the water here are not.
The Ministry of Health approves engineering designs for private facilities. An undersized operatory or a sterilisation room without a proper dirty-to-clean flow found at review means moving walls, drainage and chair services. We check the layout before anything is built.
OPG, CBCT and intraoral X-ray need authorisation from the national radiation regulator, and the shielding is verified after installation. The equipment order, the shielding design and the room build have to run to one programme.
Many Riyadh retail and office units have drainage in one corner and limited electrical capacity. Getting drainage falls to every chair, a ventilated plant room and enough power often decides whether a unit works for a dental clinic at all.
Dust loading shortens the life of compressor intakes and filters. Plant rooms are ventilated and filtered for it, and positioned so the equipment can be serviced without entering the clinical areas.
Riyadh's water hardness causes scale in dental unit waterlines, autoclaves and washer-disinfectors. Water treatment for the chairs and sterilisation equipment is agreed with the equipment supplier at design stage.
The fit-out permit, the Civil Defence safety approval and the MOH licence are separate processes with separate inspections. We programme all three from the start so the opening date is not held up by the last certificate.
Send us the unit plan and your equipment list, and we will come back with a scope, a programme and a proposal.
Licensing, budgets and MEP for dental and outpatient clinics in Riyadh.
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Everything between the bare unit and the first patient: partitions and the operatory layout, the dental chair services coordinated in the floor and ceiling, the compressor and suction plant room, X-ray and OPG or CBCT rooms with shielding, the sterilisation room, hygienic floor and wall finishes, reception and waiting, lighting, HVAC, fire systems and the testing and documentation needed for licensing.
Yes, and we ask for them early. Each chair model has its own service box position and its own requirements for compressed air, suction, water, drainage and power. We set out the floor services to the supplier's template before the screed or raised floor goes down, because moving a chair service point after the floor is finished means breaking it out.
Shielding is designed by a qualified radiation protection specialist to the specific equipment, its workload and what sits on the other side of each wall, floor and ceiling. We build to that design, including lead-lined doors, frames and viewing panels, and support the survey after installation. Radiation equipment needs its own authorisation from the national radiation regulator, so confirm the current requirements before you order the equipment.
That is how we plan it. We review the room schedule, the patient and staff flows and the sterilisation layout against the Ministry of Health requirements for your facility category before design freeze, and coordinate with your licensed healthcare designer on the submission. Requirements change and depend on the services offered, so they are confirmed with MOH for each project rather than assumed.
Most dental clinics need dental compressed air and central suction to every chair. Piped oxygen, nitrous oxide or medical vacuum depend on the services offered, for example if sedation is planned. That decision needs to be made before the MEP drawings are finalised, because it changes the plant room, the pipework routes and the testing programme.
Yes. The main checks are drainage falls to every chair position, space and ventilation for the compressor and suction plant, electrical capacity, and floor-to-slab height for ductwork. In a mall or a managed building we also work to the landlord's fit-out rules and approval process alongside the MOH, Balady and Civil Defence approvals.
Yes, in phases. We seal the work area, keep dust and noise away from operating surgeries, and schedule the service tie-ins to the compressor and suction plant for times when the clinic is closed, so the existing chairs keep working.
Every clinic is handed over after a formal snagging inspection against the approved drawings, with the compressed air, suction, water and electrical systems tested and commissioned, followed by a 12-month defects liability period.
Tell us about the unit and the number of chairs. We'll survey it, scope the works and send a detailed proposal, with no obligation.
