Mitchell Josephs, D.D.S. Question: The recent Health Department warning to 7,000 Oklahoma residents that they might have been contaminated by dirty dental instruments from an oral surgeon's office ...

Once instruments are out of the sterilized bag, your dentist should leave them on a sterile tray, not a dirty countertop. Ask your dentist: – Do you use the bags that change color when they’re ...

cockroach-like insects and flies on the floor of the office’s basement where instruments were sterilized. State investigators also say they found expired medications inside the dental office.

However, in 69% of surgeries the clean and dirty areas were not clearly defined. Virtually all cleaning of dental instruments was undertaken by dental nurses. Training for this was provided mainly ...

Some 8,100 dentists are registered in England. In order to prevent the spread of blood-borne disease, experts recommend instruments are ... At one “cluttered and dirty” practice in Haringey ...

(TULSA) - Dr. Scott Harrington told the Oklahoma State Board of Dentistry Friday that he would ... t properly sterilize tools and some of the instruments were rusty. Harrington's attorney ...

Alan Morrison was struck off the dental register after he put 6,000 patients at risk by using dirty equipment ... gloves and didn’t bother cleaning instruments from one patient to the next ...