Today's busy dental practices face a serious challenge; to maintain or increase productivity while ensuring that patient safety remains a top priority. At times, these may seem like incompatible goals. Advances in dental processing equipment, however, have empowered practices to develop safer processes while realising efficiencies and ultimately, saving money. Despite these advances in safer and more robust processes, it is clear that handpieces will only last if they are cared for and maintained in an appropriate way and according to individual specifications. Alongside this, HTM 01-05 dictates that the cleaning and sterilisation of handpieces must take place after every use.
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