Dental Sterilization
BIDC views sterilization at its uptmost importances:
- Sterilization Policies and Controls
- Personalized Sterilization Options
- Cleanliness of Dental Instruments & Equipments
- BIDC Building High-powered Air Ventilation Suction System
- Sterilization Indicators – Biological Sterilization Indicator Verification System
- Sterilization Machines and Technologies
Sterilization Policies and Controls
At BIDC, we regard hygienic standards at the highest level. BIDC always provides a safe and clean environment. BIDC imposes American JCI sterilization processes that are based on established scientific principles, hospital cleanliness standards and sterilization techniques.
At our thailand dental center, besides meeting and exceeding cleanliness bylaws from Thailand’s Ministry of Health, BIDC takes additional steps to abide by the guidelines set forth by the
- American standards by Center of Disease Contorls (CDC) and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
- Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
- Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)
- American Dental Association (ADA) and
- US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)
Sterilization policies and control are set up to provide a clean, disinfected environment for each patient in ensuring that all rooms and equipment are properly set up and sterilized daily and after each use. Initiatives taken for a clean and safe environment include details including ultra-violet and ozonation filtered water, disposable items, hand hygiene adherence and how general or infectious waste is disposed are looked at.
BIDC welcomes your questions and the opportunity to demonstrate how we handle sterilization techniques and patient protection. We want you to feel 100% comfortable about your treatment in our dental office.
Personal Sterilization Options
BIDC dental center and its dental clinics also offer the option to purchase your own dental handpiece for you and/or your family’s individual use on request. This means that the handpiece is reserved, secured and autoclaved only for you and/or your family’s use during your dental visits with us.
BIDC is an amalgam-free clinic. Patients may also opt for for the use of rubber dams during amalgam fillings removal with the replacment of composite resin or white fillings in reducing mercury vapor exposure on request. At BIDC, we believe in the safe removal of amalgam filings.
Please do kindly ask our staff if you do wish to take up this personalized option at our clinic for you and your family.
BIDC is an amalgam-free clinic. Patients may also opt for for the use of rubber dams during amalgam fillings removal with the replacment of composite resin or white fillings in reducing mercury vapor exposure on request. At BIDC, we believe in the safe removal of amalgam filings.
Please do kindly ask our staff if you do wish to take up this personalized option at our clinic for you and your family.
Dental Instruments & Equipments Cleanliness
Dental instruments at BIDC undergo several rounds of processing to ensure total safety and total sterilization has been met. Dental instruments are initially soak in rapid multi-enzyme detergent for pre-disinfectant cleaning. The enzymes digest all human secretions including blood, saliva, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and mucopolysaccharides that carries possible bacteria and viruses. Thereafter, the instruments are placed in ultrasonic machines to clean and remove tiny or invisible dirt trapped in instrument corners or spiral.
At every stage of our dental instrument sterilization process, indicators and measurement monitoring are done to double check and re-confirm that instruments are sterile and our sterilization machines are performing. At BIDC, mechanical measurements on our autoclaving machines are charted at every machine cycle. Temperature, light differentiates, pressure gauge readings are recorded during each pre and post vaccuum autoclaving period.
For the autoclaved dental instruments, sterile tape external indicators mark the individual packs that have undergone steam sterilization. Additionally, internal indicators using 3M Sterigage is also used to check that each parcel of critical dental instrument package has been exposed to steam at the correct temperature and time. The Steriage check is Class 5 level check, the highest level of examination, used to determine factors affecting treatment infection and death.
BIDC Buidling High-powered Air Ventilation Suction System
The BIDC building is designed specificially to operate and function as a dental center. The building is fitted and fully equipped with the latest high powered air suction system throughout the building and in each treatment room. This ensures that all contaminates, any mercury vapours and any harmful evaporable contents in the air are safely removed creating a safe environment for our patients.
