The Smile Clinic
286 Dorest Rd
Boronia 3155
Ph 9762 5177
Information sheet from www.boronia.localdentist.com.au

Infection Control at the Dental Practice

What is Infection Control?
Sterilising our equipment to ensure your safety
Plastic wrapping
Have you got more questions?

What is Infection Control?
Dentists have always been very conscientious about cleanliness of instruments. As technologies and information has changed dentists have remained in the forefront of developments in this area. Infection Control involves more than cleanliness. In dentistry today Infection Control involves

• sterilising all re-useable instruments
• disposing single use materials
• "barrier" techniques

All these things are designed to stop bacteria and viruses from passing from one patient to another.

How do we sterilise?
The most common steriliser used in dentistry is called an autoclave. Autoclaves place instruments under so much hot steam and pressure that all bacteria and viruses are killed.
Before placing instruments in a steriliser they are cleaned and rinsed to heighten the effectiveness of the autoclave.
Gas and dry heat can also be used to sterilise dental equipment.

Plastic wrapping (or what we never reuse)

• The environment is important to us
• Your health and safety are important to us
• Where possible we use equipment that we can reuse with the safety. Somethings must be single use but we are committed to combining both your safety and our concerns for the enviroment.

Want to know more?
We are happy to discuss any aspect of our infection control procedure with you.

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