dental instruments sterilization problems

    Dental instruments effective disinfection and sterilization for the prevention and control of nosocomial infections is a very important part in controlling HBV, HCV, HIV blood-borne diseases is particularly important and urgent. At present, China's current situation is not satisfactory disinfection of dental instruments, dental dental chair instruments sterilization, there are some noteworthy issues: (1) understanding the inconsistencies, preventive medicine specialists and clinical staff recognize there are differences. Because there are still re-treatment of light on defense issues, clinical staff rarely treatment of oral diseases and prevent other communicable diseases linked to rational and effective disinfection is also easy to be overlooked. (2) clinical staff, lack of sterilization of technical knowledge to grasp, not rational selection and use of existing disinfection technology. With traditional dental instruments sterilized in situ in situ use of the phenomenon. Such as dental handpiece with povidone-iodine, iodine, alcohol wipe dental machine or natural evaporation of formalin fumigation, so that part of the equipment can not reach through the mucous membrane thoroughly sterilized. After disinfection resulting viable bacteria may be detectable on the instrument, occult blood and HBsAg positive. (3) hospital leaders lack of knowledge on the disinfection of dental instruments, dental instruments sterilization equipment configuration is not yet universal. (4) the lack of sterilization of dental instruments and regulations on the supervision mechanism. A wide range of Articulator commonly used dental equipment must be selected according to the situation of different disinfection methods and time. If you select the method of disinfection equipment improper or inadequate sterilization time can lead to cross-infection.