Why is it important to maintain hygiene and sterilization standards?
Dr Gordon Tam • February 27, 2020
Your safety is our priority
We believe in treating you the same as how we wanted our loved ones to be treated. We think for you. As so, we make sure that the dental instruments we use are well maintained, and clean with the highest level of sanitization.
Instruments in individual pouches
In Smile Design Dental Practice, we demand and maintain our standards of hygiene and sterilization with your well-being as our top concern. We believe that your safety is our priority. After the stringent cleaning process, we pouch every single instrument before sending it into the autoclave for high temperature and pressure for sterilization.
Why is putting these instruments in the individual sterilization pouch so important?
The sterilization pouch is a medical-grade pouch where it can undergo a high temperature and pressure of sterilization to maintain the dental instruments inside sterilized.
We only open these sterilized instruments upon usage. This is not limited to our dental surgical instruments but all the instruments we used on your treatments.
New and Personalised root canal treatment (Endodontic) Instruments
Root canal treatment is a very delicate process where tiny root canal treatment instruments (endodontic files) are inserted to the root canals to clean and remove the nerves and pulp tissue.
We use NEW endodontic instruments for every root canal treatment case. All the endodontic files used on every patient, after cleaning and pouching, we write your name on the pouch before sending into the autoclave. For cases that require multiple visits, we retrieve the pack of endodontic files with your name on it for subsequent visits.
These endodontic instruments are very fine, we take extra precaution and care to clean them.
First, they receive a soaking bath in the medical-grade cleaning solution just like the rest of our dental instruments. Subsequently, we give them a good scrub before rinsing off with water.
Next, we put them into the ultrasonic cleaner for another round of (vibrating) bath. The ultrasonic cleaner produces vibrations that help to shake off any remaining debris attached to these fine and delicate endodontic files, making sure that we clean them well.
After we dry these endodontic files, we pouch them, with the indication of your name at the pouch before sending them for sterilization.
The endodontic files are all new and personalized. We named them because they are yours and they are for your personal use only. We eliminate the possibility of any cross-contamination by insisting to only use new endodontic files for every one of you.
With your safety as our priority, you will have a peace of mind to embark on your dental journey with us.
For more information and consultation, please contact Smile Design Dental Practice at +65 6463 8588 .
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