Dental Cross – Infection

Dental Cross – Infection

With the social development and progress and people’s awareness of oral health care gradually, more and more people into the Dental Hospital, Dental, Dental Clinic for dental treatment and oral health, which in itself reflects the progress of society, but also reflects the people’s living standards and changing concepts of health, is a good thing, but I want to remind you that in you to the dental treatment, you should be careful dental cross-infection.

As we all know, a person’s mouth itself is suitable for all kinds of good environment for microbial growth, and many viruses can be spread through saliva and blood, 15% of the domestic population is hepatitis B virus carriers or patients, the incidence of AIDS is also increasing every year. If oral treatment, a patient through the instrument of the former saliva or blood in the transmission of the virus to the next patient, which is oral iatrogenic infection. This iatrogenic harm caused by infection is often the treatment of oral diseases than the more serious.

The treatment of oral diseases, the vast majority of operations conducted in the patient’s mouth, diagnosis and treatment of regular contact with saliva when the equipment and blood, hepatitis, HIV infection of the mouth, blood, saliva, and dental pulp have with their sources, and is capable of spreading sex, HIV can survive in the blood clot in 96 hours if the patient has a previous infectious disease, most likely through contaminated hands of staff, equipment and other vector-borne to the next patient. Once there have been reports of foreign dentists to HIV, hepatitis transmission to their patients. Currently, most hospitals and clinics in the oral treatment and it can not do carry the virus, patients will be treated differently, there is no strict and effective disinfection of certain equipment, so it is possible to cause iatrogenic infection. In particular, using the scaler in the handle and turbines phone, because the price of these devices are relatively expensive, most hospitals, clinics and disinfect using only surface disinfection, and did not do to each patient using a cell phone, which to the spread of some diseases provides the opportunity, if you see the teeth were infected hepatitis, AIDS, may have caused you harm is enormous. Read more…