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In recent years, the community has become more aware of infectious diseases and the ability of these diseases to be spread from one person to another. The infectious diseases that are of most concern are hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Tubercolosis, HIV and Herpes.

Health care professional have established procedures which reduce the risks of infection. Carrying out practicies in the dental surgery which help to prevet the spread of an infectious diseases from one person to another is called "infection control".

You may hear your dentist use the terms "Standard Precautions" and "Additional Precautions". These precautions consist of guidelines on safe work practices for infection control. The four key principles of infection control in the dental surgery are;

Steilisation of all reusable materials and instruments
Disposing all single-use matierals and instrument in the most appropriate way.
"Barrier" techniques
Manual techniques that reduce the risk of spread of infection.

As per Australian infection control standards, dental instruments must be "sterilised". The sterilisation process delivers extreme heat, and pressure at levels that are known to kill all bacteria and viruses known to be of concern.
After a drill, handpiece, mrror or other dental instruments is used on another person, it is thoroughly cleaned, rinsed and then sterilised in an "autoclave".
All instruments required to treat patients are "bagged" in kits that enable the management of sterilised and unsterilised instruments.
All sterilised intrument bags are tagged and labled and their use is entered into a register held inthe sterilisation room.

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