What is Dental Cross Infection? How to avoid it? The term ‘cross Infection’ refers to transformation of microorganisms from one person (patient) to another, (a dentist) either directly or indirectly. Most of the cross infections occur during a dental procedure in different ways, where a dentist can come in direct contact with a patient’s saliva or breathing aerosol while using high speed drills, staying closer to a patient, who has an infection like flu virus, cough or any other contagious disease. This happens due to carelessness on the dental professional’s side, who do not wear a protective mask or gloves on hands during surgeries or dental checkups. Sometimes, infections can pass on from one patient to another due to adoption of poor hygienic measures. When a dentist uses poorly sterilized equipment, especially the surgical dental equipment, the chances of transforming infection from one patient into another and even from a patient to a dentist, are high. To avoid any transformation of infection, the dentists in Diamond Bar take high care of proper hygienic measures while providing all the surgical or non-surgical dental treatments to their patients. How Dentists Can Keep of Cross Infection? •
Keep necessary distance from the patients while providing them surgical and nonsurgical treatments.
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Dentists should not forget to wear a mask on their faces while doing a dental surgery or scaling and flossing, because any minor splash of saliva or blood may become the cause of a major health problem. Keep replacing mask on every turn because reusing the same mask can become a cause of infection transformation.
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The dental experts should not forget to wash their hands before and after giving a treatment to a patient.
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Dentists should wear gloves, as these keep their hands covered from becoming contaminated with microorganisms either from patients or the other sources. By wearing gloves, dentists can keep their hands safe from chemicals that are used during a surgical dental process or disinfection of the equipment.