What are the measures used to control infection in a dental practice?

There are two different sets of precautionary measures used to deal with Infection Control in a day-to-day setting: 1. Standard Precautions involve the use of safe work practices and protective barriers, with all patients receiving care in health care facilities regardless of their diagnosis or presumed infectious status. They require a system of procedures undertaken for every patient who visits a dental practice, without exception. These are the minimum acceptable standards of practice for infection control Standard Precautions refer to infection control practices where all human secretions, particularly blood and saliva in dentistry, are assumed to be potentially infectious. 2. Transmission Based Precautions - precautions necessary for the care of patients who are known or suspected to be infected by pathogens spread by airborne, droplet or contact transmission. Transmission based precautions apply in those situations where Standard Precautions may be insufficient to prevent ...  more

There are two different sets of precautionary measures used to deal with Infection Control in a day-to-day setting: 1. Standard Precautions involve the use of safe work practices and protective barriers, with all patients receiving care in health care facilities regardless of their diagnosis or presumed infectious status. They require a system of procedures undertaken for every patient who visits a dental practice, without exception. These are the minimum acceptable standards of practice for infection control Standard Precautions refer to infection control practices where all human secretions, particularly blood and saliva in dentistry, are assumed to be potentially infectious. 2. Transmission Based Precautions - precautions necessary for the care of patients who are known or suspected to be infected by pathogens spread by airborne, droplet or contact transmission.  more