Quick Tip Tuesday #87: Sterilizer Maintenance
When it comes to your sterilizers, you need to make sure they are functioning properly. If your equipment is on the fritz, it could cause big problems for your dental...
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Practice Tips #107: Failing A Sterilizer Spore Test
Current CDC guidelines and standard best management practices (BMPs) in infection control (as well as many local regulations) recommend performing a spore test on your sterilizer weekly. A test of...
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Practice Tips #105: Breathe In, Breathe Out – The Secret of the Sterilizer Bellows
The sterilizer helps you maintain proper infection control, making it one of the most important pieces of equipment in the dental office. Without a sterilizer, you can't have sterile instruments...
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Practice Tips #14: Sterilizer Maintenance
Sterilizer Maintenance In previous issues of Practice Tips we’ve discussed a number of techniques, tools, and principles for repair, but to avoid breakdowns in the first place, the importance of...
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Practice Tips #93: Sterilizer Door Gaskets (The Seal of Sterility)
The steam (autoclave) and chemical vapor (chemiclave) sterilizer are the workhorses of the dental office. All sterilizers use a "seal" or "door gasket" of some sort. In this month's Practice...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #81: Sterilizers
Dental practices come in all sizes and specialties. You could have two operatories or you could have fifteen set-up stations. The size and quantity of patients per day will directly...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #58: Sterilizers
The dental sterilizer is used every day and parts will need replacement (hopefully your office has a proper maintenance routine already). This dentist asked us: See more do-it-yourself quick tips...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #65: Sterilizers
Is your sterilizer having issues? With so many makes and models out there, there could be a few reasons it is acting up. Before you purchase parts and try to...
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Practice Tips #28: Troubleshooting Sterilizers - Part 2
Unlike the last Practice Tip, part 2 focuses on troubleshooting temperature issues with your sterilizers. Temperature-related problems are very common in sterilizers, so having a lag thermometer helps diagnose these...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #7: Sterilizers
Sterilizers are the topic of today's quick tip. An important component to making sure your autoclave runs properly is water, but what kind of water should you be using? For...
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Practice Tips #44: Diagnosing & Repairing a Statim® Sterilizer With A Steam Leak - Video
This month in Practice Tips we’ve got a video showing diagnosis and repair of a Statim sterilizer with a steam leak. When diagnosing any problems, it’s best to start with...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #69: Sterilizers
If you are noticing your dental products coming out of your sterilizer in bad shape, something is definitely wrong with your sterilizer or you are putting in products that aren't...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #94: Steam Sterilizers (Autoclaves)
One of the most commonly replaced dental parts is: tubing. Tubing is what allows you to use air, water, and other materials in your practice. This dentist asked us this...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #22: Sterilizers
The dental product market is saturated with products to choose from, but it is up to dental suppliers like American Dental to provide dentists (you) with options. Finding the right...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #31: Sterilizers
Strange noises coming from your dental equipment are a good indication that they might need a little TLC and possibly a few replacement parts. Doing your own repair or giving...
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Practice Tips #27: Troubleshooting Sterilizers (Part 1)
Rather than troubleshooting a specific make or model of sterilizers (such as we did with Decoding the Statim), we’re going to discuss general operation and troubleshooting of steam or chemical...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #49: Sterilizers
Longevity of your dental equipment is dependent on how often it is used and how well it is taken care of. Sometimes a dental technician can be costly, but that...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #39: Sterilizers
There are a few replacement parts that should be replaced routinely; door gaskets and o-rings are a few of the most common ones. Our customer asked this about their autoclave:...
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Practice Tips #75: Clean Before You Sterilize
This latest issue of Practice Tips is on infection control and what it means to clean before you sterilize. According to CDC guidelines, in order for an item to be...
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Practice Tips #133: Advantages of RapidHeat™ Sterilization
Advantages of RapidHeat™ sterilization begins with a commitment to patient safety — an essential priority in every dental practice. Given the close contact involved in oral care and the high...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #101: Sterilization Areas
Your work place is supposed to help you be efficient and be an enjoyable place to work. When designing your practice, we have this to say about the sterilization area:...
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Practice Tips #76: Being Critical About Sterilization
Infection control is a critical element to practice dentistry, but sterilization confuses practioners. In our last issue of Practice Tips, we discuss the importance of cleaning before sterilization. This refers...
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Practice Tips #83: Streamlining Your Sterilization Center
Streamline your sterilization center to keep your dental practice a well-oiled machine with efficient processes. When it comes to sterilizing your dental instruments, the process in place also needs to...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #14: Clean Instruments Prior to Sterilization
Are you noticing corrosion on your dental instruments after you run them through your autoclave? A customer did and asked us: For more information on how to clean instruments prior to...
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