Basic Setup
- Clean up with
disinfectant and disposable napkin any area potentially touched by DA and
doctor. Cover headlight handles with
sticky tapes (folded once)
- Load a 3-way syringe
(which is NOT disposable) on doctor’s side and saliva suction for DA.
The latter is covered by a plastic sleeve
- For prophy and deep
cleaning (but not for gross debridement), load prophy cup and place prophy
paste on doctor’s side. For every 2
quadrant scaling & root planning, we need one 2x2 gauze
- Whenever possible,
load Piezo (or Cavitron) ultrasound tip with a wrench inside black plastic
box, but do not over tighten it.
Ask patient to open mouth wide. Look at mouth, particularly lower
incisors’ lingual side to determine how much calculus is.
The more calculus, the larger tip of ultrasound should be used.
When doctor finishes ultrasound scaling, place the handpiece
temporarily on DA’s delivery system (rail).
When patient leaves, clean the handpiece and unload ultrasound tip
with a wrench outside the box. Place
the tip on tray to be autoclaved.
The tip is expensive and easily lost.
In the evening before we dump trash, double check the number of Piezo
tips. We do not lose any one of
them. Now there are thirteen of
them.
- Put back the
ultrasound handpiece into its holder after surface disinfection
- Autoclave wrench now
and then
- Place small
instruments such as ultrasound tip, isolate burs, unused, but contaminated
stainless steel crown and ortho bands in a netted container, rinse and
autoclave
- Return
Assistant Page
Xin Wei, DDS, PhD, MS 1st edition 05/18/2011, last revision
06/01/2011