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...
Failure to Properly Lubricate Your Dental Handpieces Results in Unnecessary Repairs and Replacements
In recent months, one of the most prevalent issues observed during the maintenance of dental handpieces received from dental practitioners is improper lubrication. While a simple step to perform, many are neglecting this critical component of their dental instrument...
10 Mistakes Practitioners Make When Maintaining Dental Handpieces That Negatively Impact the Life of the Device
Dental handpieces are an essential tool within a dental practice. These tools are fundamental in the daily routine. If properly maintained, they enhance the practice. If improperly maintained, they can detrimentally affect the practice. These dental devices are used...
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
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...
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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
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...
Incorporating a Dental Handpiece Maintenance System into Your Practice Offers Many Benefits
As a dental care provider, it is essential that your dental handpieces are in proper working order. Not only does this allow you to perform your daily tasks, it allows patients to receive much-needed treatments to ensure optimal oral health. Maintenance of these...
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 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...
Clogs in Your Water Line May Detrimentally Impact the Performance of Your Dental Handpieces
Regardless of the type of dental handpieces that you use and the frequency of use, if your water line becomes clogged, it will negatively impact the overall performance of your dental handpieces. Each and every single day – somewhere throughout the nation – a dental...