The Dos and Don’ts of Dental Handpiece Sterilization

The Dos and Don’ts of Dental Handpiece Sterilization

Dental handpieces and the attachments utilized with those handpieces – such as reusable angles and low-speed varieties of motors – must be sterilized with heat between patients. According to studies, the internal areas of these items have the potential to experience...
Infection Control Compliance In Your Dental Practice

Infection Control Compliance In Your Dental Practice

Since 2020 and the arrival of COVID-19, dental practitioners have been hyper-focused on the protocols surrounding infection control. However, now that more and more of the population has become vaccinated and cases are occurring less often, it is of the highest...
CDC Guidelines for Dental Equipment

CDC Guidelines for Dental Equipment

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) provides full recognition that the dental community is in need of precise guidelines pertaining to the act of reprocessing dental devices between encounters with patients since the onset of COVID and COVID-based variants. Proper...
Protect your patients and your practice.

Protect your patients and your practice.

We often get extremely cheap handpieces for repair that I refer to as “knockoffs”.  These come from offices that purchased them on the popular online auction site.  Many of these handpieces cost as little as $25 .  A quality repair for these knockoffs are often more...
ODA Interview with Jeff Hughes of Hughes Diversified Dental LLC

ODA Interview with Jeff Hughes of Hughes Diversified Dental LLC

Live at ODA 2019 with Jeff of Hughes Diversified Dental Repair Live at Ohio Dental Association – ODA 2019 with Jeff Hughes of Hughes Dental Repair, who's talking about how he got into dentistry, his 21+ years of experience as a technician, and offers some...
Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome in Dentistry

Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome in Dentistry

The excessive vibration of improperly maintained dental handpieces could result in the development of Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome among dental practitioners. Dental handpieces that are not properly maintained over the duration of their lifetime are quite likely to...
The Causes of Turbine Failure in Dental Handpieces

The Causes of Turbine Failure in Dental Handpieces

The turbine is considered to be the most important component of dental handpieces. This is due to the fact that it actually does all of the work within the dental instrument. On average, the turbine includes approximately ten different components. These include the...