Sterilization and disinfection: what every dentist needs to know.
This paper reviews infection control procedures with the related regulations and recommendations. Procedures for processing contaminated instruments include presoaking, cleaning, packaging, sterilization, spore-testing and hand-piece asepsis. Surface asepsis techniques include surface covering, surface precleaning and surface disinfection.
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Department of Oral Microbiology, Indiana University School of Dentistry.
D003754:Dental High-Speed Equipment; D003762:Dental Instruments; D003770:Dental Offices; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D006801:Humans; D013242:Sterilization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*