Dental Unit Water Lines: Top 5 – Episode 13: Your Dental Top 5 with Amanda Hill
This week on Your Dental Top 5 Podcast Amanda Hill discusses the Top 5 steps you need to take with your Dental Unit Water Lines. Amanda brings us information she has learned from the experts in the field, the CDC, OSHA, and OSAP. Episode Highlights Shocking Lines/ Flushing Lines Testing Lines Treating Lines…
This week on Your Dental Top 5 Podcast Amanda Hill discusses the Top 5 steps you need to take with your Dental Unit Water Lines. Amanda brings us information she has learned from the experts in the field, the CDC, OSHA, and OSAP.
Episode Highlights
Shocking Lines/ Flushing Lines
Testing Lines
Treating Lines
Maintaining Lines
Re-Testing Lines
Quotes
“One time my professor had a spider crawl out of her waterline in the morning before she saw a patient”
“You want to run that bleach/solution through every single line that has water”
“It’s going to take almost a minute before that bleach is going to come through your ultrasonic”
“After you shock your lines, you need to test them”
“You could have up to 7 lines that you need to test, you need to test all your lines”
“If your lines fail, you need to go back to step 1, and then test again”
“If you are not maintaining your lines, that biofilm is coming right back”
“If you leave standing water in there overnight, biofilm will grow”
“I think it’s important to ask yourself if you would like to lay in your own chair”
