Our dental office is safe....Let us tell you why!

The health and safety of you, the patient, is foremost in our practice.

It is, and continues to be, safe to visit this office.

The most frequently performed procedures in this dental office are not dental procedures themselves, but infection control procedures. They are known as "universal precautions" these precautions include, but not limited to:

Wearing protective gloves for any procedure in the mouth;
Changing gloves and using hand sterilizers or medicated soap between patients;
Wearing other protective barriers such as safety glasses (and even tinted safety glasses for the patient), masks and gowns as necessary;
Using instruments/materials that can be disposed of after one use on patients;
Properly sterilizing or disinfecting instruments in self-sealing sterile packaging that are re-used;

These "universal" infection control procedures work. Their effectiveness in preventing the spread of infection is demonstrated by the fact that there has never been a confirmed case of either the HIV (AIDS) or Hepatitis B (infectious form) virus being transmitted through dental instruments.

HIV (Human immunodeficiency Virus) does not remain alive for extended periods outside the body. It is easily killed by common disinfectants, including those used in this office.

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) indicates that no studies exist that confirms the transmission of viruses such as Hepatitis B (HBV) or HIV through the dental handpiece or other dental equipment.

We at Lake Orion Family Dentistry invested heavily in our new office with a state of the art sterilization center custom designed by A-dec (www.a-dec.com), the pre-eminent dental equipment company in world in our opinion. We now use instrument cassettes for most all of our instruments so our team doesn’t have to handle instruments by hand. We have a “dirty side” where instruments are dropped off without any touching of the instruments by our team. They are then presterilized by a Hydrim machine (www.scican.com/usa/dental/hydrim_l110w.php). These cassettes are then sterilized in the A-dec “Lisa” medical grade autoclave/sterilizer. This system uses heat sterilization for our dental handpieces and all other instruments used in the mouth. The autoclave (heat sterilizer) is monitored monthly for performance by the University of Detroit Mercy School of Dentistry to insure proper performance.

We encourage you to ask questions about our infection control procedures. Our patient's should be comfortable knowing that we are using all the latest steps necessary to protect their health!

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