Practice Tips #18: Fixing Waterline Clogs
A lack of water flow in your dental unit causes concern, but fixing a waterline clog doesn't have to be stressful. Something we encounter every day are complaints of no...
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Practice Tips #120: Are You Sure Your Office is Water Compliant?
WANT TO SOLVE THIS WATERLINE PROBLEM? HERE'S HOW YOUR OFFICE CAN BE DENTAL WATER COMPLIANT Since 2003, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has had comprehensive published guidelines for dental...
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Practice Tips #16: Dental Tubing Made Easy
Choose the Correct Tubing Nothing is more frustrating than receiving your replacement tubing and finding out you ordered the wrong size. To ensure you order the correct size of tubing,...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #91: Delivery Units
Keeping your waterlines clean and safe for your patients will take work. One topic that comes up often are clogs—We have talked about clogs a lot in the past (see...
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Practice Tips #78: Spring Clean Your Water System
Water is a crucial resource to dentistry, so it is important to keep your water system clean. For World Water Day we wanted to give you some dental practice tips...
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Woman Contracts Deadly Disease From Dentist's Office
Recently, an 82 year old Italian woman died after contracting Legionaire's Disease from her dentist's units. While hot water systems, air conditioning systems, spas, and fountains are the most common sources...
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Practice Tips #135: 5 Dental Maintenance Jobs to Avoid Downtime
Summer is the perfect time to service your dental equipment. Here are 5 maintenance jobs — sterilizers, waterlines, handpieces, and more — to prevent fall downtime.
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Quick Tip Tuesday #30: Model Trimmers
Not sure how to fix a dental waterline clog on your model trimmer? It's pretty simple once you know what to look for and how to troubleshoot it. Our customer...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #90: Handpieces
Disconnecting a handpiece shouldn't be hard, but sometimes it can be tricky. This problem might occur when there is a clog or due to inadequate handpiece maintenance. This dentist had...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #35: Dental Units
Depending on where your dental practice is located, the water can taste different coming out of your dental unit. One patient complained and the dentist asked us what they could...
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Quick Tip Tuesday #67: Amalgam Separator
Amalgam separation is a fast-growing practice among dentists. As a community, the awareness of what is going into our drinking water is becoming more important. Collecting the amalgam in a...
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Practice Tips #125: Water Safety
Water Safety This episode of Practice Tips is to make sure your practice has a proper water safety system in place. As dental offices open and close due to local...
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Practice Tips #136: Leaking Handpiece?
Handpiece is leaking? It might not be your handpiece at all. Check these things before you replace your handpiece.
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Practice Tips #4: Quick Disconnects
Adding a quick disconnect (Q/D) for water to your unit is easier than you think. A few minutes, a couple of quick attachments and you have a water Q/D for that...
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Practice Tips #23: Getting to Know Your Utility Center
Getting to Know Your Utility Center Your utility center or junction box assembly (j-box) houses the valves and regulators that distribute your air and water sources to your delivery unit....
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Practice Tips #88: How to Restore Flow to Your Ultrasonic Scaler
Even with proper protocols in place (i.e. the correct treatment and filtration), clogs still occur in your water lines. This Practice Tip focuses on one of the most commonly clogged...
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Dental Instrument Repair: The Complete Guide To Troubleshooting, Maintenance, and Parts
Dental instrument downtime doesn't just cost money -it costs chair time, rescheduled patients, and staff frustration. Most guides on "dental instrument repair" only talk about handpieces, leaving practices guessing about...
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