Productivity and efficiency are crucial within the dental practice today to ensure that patients receive safe and effective care, and that the practice experiences the greatest levels of uptime to provide such treatments. Many different factors can impact the dental team’s ability to deliver dental services. For example, if essential infection control equipment like your autoclave were to malfunction or break down completely, this would significantly impact patients, the professional team and the business in a number of ways.
Patient care suffers
The first, and most important, issue caused by an autoclave breakdown is its impact on patient care. When the decontamination process is paused, the team will quickly run out of sterilised reusable instruments, meaning that appointments must also be halted until a resolution is found.
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