Dental handpieces are the workhorses of every dental practice. However, they remain one of the most difficult instruments to clean, disinfect and sterilise, and require meticulous care to perform efficiently.
Reaching the hidden internal surfaces and hollow channels (lumens) of a handpiece makes decontamination a challenge. Without internal cleaning, any protein residues such as blood left inside a handpiece can ‘bake’ onto internal surfaces during sterilisation, acting as a barrier to steam penetration.
To maintain precision handpieces and to aid compliance, NSK has a series of care and maintenance videos and an instruction leaflet, providing a step-by-step guide to the cleaning, lubrication and sterilisation of NSK handpieces in accordance with IOS/EN 17665 and HTM 01-05 (March 2013).
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