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Robert Elsenpeter is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to Dental Products Report and Dental Lab Products. He is also the author of 18 technology books, including the award-winning Green IT: Reduce Your Information System's Environmental Impact While Adding to the Bottom Line. As such, he’s particularly interested in the technological side of dentistry.

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What is different about these two processes, and how should each be applied in a practice?

Disinfection vs Sterilization: What's the difference?

Stan Goff is a Managing Editor with MJH Life Sciences, which includes Dental Products Report, Dental Practice Management, Dental Lab Products, Modern Hygienist, and Dentist's Money Digest. He has covered the dental industry since 1999 and can be reached at sgoff@mjhlifesciences.com.  

Hu-Friedy, Crosstex combine under Cantel Medical to provide total infection prevention, compliance solutions

The act of cleaning, disinfecting, and sterilizing instruments and equipment is just one battle in the war against infection. How the team handles equipment after reprocessing is just as important. Missteps seem to be pervasive, but they are not insurmountable.

Handling and storing sterile instruments

Among healthcare professionals, discussion of infection control policies and procedures can be as formal as mandated annual meetings, or as casual as water cooler chitchat. However, there are sure to be times when patients need to be informed-or may outright ask-about infection control issues.

How to share infection control practices with patients

Read this article to explore how G4 Technology can profoundly impact infection control policies, procedures, AND quality assurance.

G4 Technology in Cleaning and Sterilization Equipment: An Added Step Toward Quality Assurance

Getting staff excited about infection control

In part three of a four-part series, we define “efficient” as the third part of SciCan’s SPECs. Read this eBook to learn about SciCan's SPECs.

Is Your STERI-CENTER Up to SciCan's SPECs? Part 3

Proper infection control procedures are critical components to any dental practice. Observing best practices ensures not only patient safety but also that of the team. Ideally, every practice would identify these behaviors and weed them out.

Protect Yourself and Your Staff: Infection control best practices for dental team members

Straightening out some of the most misunderstood aspects of optimal dental infection control.

3 common infection control questions answered

The upgraded sterilizers were introduced at the ADA FDI World Dental Conference. 

Infection Control