FAQ.

Sterilisation is important

How do you clean the dental unit?

After the patient leaves the chair, all single-use materials are collected and disposed of in either medical or household waste bins, depending on their type. Metal instruments are gathered at the end of the day and placed in special disinfectant solutions to be sterilized later in an autoclave. All contact surfaces of the dental unit are cleaned by spraying fast-acting disinfectant solutions that eliminate microbes quickly. Once everything is thoroughly cleaned, the room is ventilated and new single-use materials are prepared for the next patient.

How do you clean the instruments used?

Most of the materials we use are disposable. Metal hand instruments are first placed in disinfectant solutions, then washed, dried, and sealed in special sterilization pouches. They are sterilized in autoclave machines and kept sealed in their pouches until they are used again.

What kind of machine is an autoclave? How does it clean?

An autoclave is a sterilization machine that kills microbes using pressurized steam, usually at 121 degrees Celsius. Instruments sterilized in an autoclave remain sterile for up to 6 months as long as the sterilization pouches remain sealed. The effectiveness of the autoclave is regularly monitored using color-changing indicators on the pouches, internal chemical indicators placed with each cycle, and detailed sterilization logs.