The topic of infection control has drawn a bit of a media circus of late, thanks partly to a few newsworthy breaches in dental practices and the Zika...
As a dental professional, you need to walk a safe path, juggling patient safety with practice efficiency. Mark Beckwith discusses the need to be...
Richard Griffith discusses the duties of dental care professionals (DCPs) to ensure patients benefit from proper infection prevention and control...
In this article, Shilla Talati discusses what immunisations are necessary for dental nurses or staff at the dental practice who will come into contact...
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Personal protective equipment (PPE) is designed to protect the person wearing it from pathogens and protects the patient from pathogens that could be...
This article will examine environmental cleanliness, surface cleaning, hand hygiene and how we have a responsibility to ensure that all our staff,...
Within the dental practice, there are many pathogens that can harm the patient, as well as the dental team. This article discusses effective cleaning...
A range of leadership and management skills are needed to fulfil the decontamination lead role effectively. The decontamination lead should work as...
Dental practices are areas of high risk of cross infection if standards for infection prevention and control are not met. This article discusses the...
The HTM 01-05 regulations are intended to minimise the risk of cross-infection and contamination in dental practices. Dental nurses are often...
