title: Sterilization and disinfection: what every dentist needs to know.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oral Microbiology, Indiana University School of Dentistry.
authors.forename: C H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D003754:Dental High-Speed Equipment; D003762:Dental Instruments; D003770:Dental Offices; D004866:Equipment Contamination; D006801:Humans; D013242:Sterilization / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*