On this week’s episode of The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee, Michelle is joined by Dr. Shannon Mills and discuss dental water line maintenance. Dr. Mills graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry in 1977 and completed a two-year general dentistry residency at Wilford Hall US Air Force Medical Center in 1983. He served as a dental officer in the United States Air Force Dental Corps from 1977 to 2005, retiring in the rank of Colonel. While serving as the US Air Force Consultant in Dental Infection Control in 1994, he established the US Air Force Dental Infection Control and Occupational Health Course which is now the OSAP Dental Infection Control Boot Camp.He is recognized internationally as an expert on infection control and safety in dentistry and has authored and co-authored several peer-reviewed scientific papers, review articles and research abstracts and was a member of the Advisory Group that prepared the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Healthcare Settings—2003. He represents OSAP on the ADA and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Standards Committees for Dental Products (SCDP) and Dental Informatics (SCDI).
Episode Highlights:
- Dental Water Lines
- Waterline Treatment
Quotes:
“It’s the immediacy of the threat”
“The only way you are aware of it, is when something goes wrong”
“That was influenced by the media, the media was connecting with the patients”
“Step one is isolating your unit form the municipal water line”
“In many cases the manufactures are including it in their instructions of use… its something that all manufactures should be doing”
“If you are not telling your purchasers how to do these things, you are not meeting their needs as a provider of product, and as a consumer they have every reason to look elsewhere”
“For offices that are not quite ready to send it to a lab… there are tests that can be done in the office”
“When your staff sees how heavily contaminated that water is…they are not doing to be around it either”
“If you wouldn’t take that water from the handpiece in a glass and drink it, you shouldnt be treating patients with it”
Links:
OSAP White Paper:
https://osapjdics.scholasticahq.com
The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:
http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/
The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429
OSAP’s homepage:
Michelle Lee’s email:
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