Decontamination of Dental Equipment and Instruments

DENTAL NURSE DOMAIN

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a) surgical hand piece: It has been analyzed that dental hand pieces need to be sterilized and
clean before making use of them. In order to decontaminate them, they can be rinse with water
and detergent. Before using it hand pieces must also be dried.
b) extraction forceps: Extraction forceps must before be using needs to be sterilized at least for
10 hours (Lohbauer and et.al., 2017). They must be soak in cold sterility for at least a period
of 10-90 minutes.
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Instruments that are opened on the sterile field, whether used or not used, during the
surgical procedure must be thoroughly decontaminated prior to disinfection and/or sterilization.
There has been various standard practice in order to decontaminate the equipment’s like for
example instruments must be clean before the surgery begins so that blood drying can be
prevented.
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A) Dental chair: Before using the dental chair the health care unit must check that parts are
safely being placed and the chair is correctly operating. They must be serviced from
about 10-15 years.
B) Aspirator: In this according to legal requirements, water level in the sterilisers needs to
be checked. It must be flushed with water or plugged with air.
C) Hand piece: Health care professionals in order to check hand piece must make sure that
these hand pieces having effective water Cooling system, in order to increase control.
D) Ultra Sonic Scaler: These are being used to remove bits form the teeth of patients. They
must make sure that these scalers are being used at high power. Only when it can be
useful (Welbury, Duggal and Hosey, 2018).
E) X-ray machine: These machines are used to check the health status of tooth root. Dentist
must make sure that these machines provide pure graphic images of teeth.
F) X-ray processing equipment: For this it is advised to dentist to have an annual electro
mechanical inspection. These equipment’s needs to be checked once in three years.