Infection control is known to be one of the most essential items a dental office can have. With proper infection control, you are able to prevent the spread of many diseases. In this paper, I will be talking about infection control and how far dental offices have come since before infection control was known to be important. Infection control is a huge importance in every dental office. The American Dental Association (ADA) said, “Infection control are certain precautions taken in the medical field to prevent spread of disease,” written in “Infection control in the dental office.” mouthhealthy.org. www.mouthhealthy.org.
There are many recommendations of infection control made by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). All dentist's care about your safety and work hard to protect you. Before you enter each operatory, each chair, counter top, instrument, and any other things used during …show more content…
I did make assumptions of infection control that did change after I read into the history of it a little more. I did not think of the fact that people use to not have the correct medications for pain during oral surgery or tooth extractions. It is unbelievable to me that most people used to die from infections from not having the proper antibiotics for oral procedures.
I’ve learned many things about infection control and how important it is, before Universal Precautions were made in 1991, which was not that long ago people were getting sick more often and dying of infections caught from patients. I now know that infection control in dentistry is crucial and every office needs to obey the rules of standard precautions.
In conclusion, infection control is one of the most important things in the medical and dental field. The proper precautions for patients and employees are to follow the universal precautions. By not following the precautions, patients and employees would still be getting sick and dying from getting infections from one
There are many recommendations of infection control made by the Center for Disease Control (CDC). All dentist's care about your safety and work hard to protect you. Before you enter each operatory, each chair, counter top, instrument, and any other things used during …show more content…
I did make assumptions of infection control that did change after I read into the history of it a little more. I did not think of the fact that people use to not have the correct medications for pain during oral surgery or tooth extractions. It is unbelievable to me that most people used to die from infections from not having the proper antibiotics for oral procedures.
I’ve learned many things about infection control and how important it is, before Universal Precautions were made in 1991, which was not that long ago people were getting sick more often and dying of infections caught from patients. I now know that infection control in dentistry is crucial and every office needs to obey the rules of standard precautions.
In conclusion, infection control is one of the most important things in the medical and dental field. The proper precautions for patients and employees are to follow the universal precautions. By not following the precautions, patients and employees would still be getting sick and dying from getting infections from one