Chapter 18
The importance of understanding microbiology
What is knowing how to prevent disease transmission in the dental office?
First link in the chain of infection
What is an infectious agent?
Surface barrier use
What is the best method used to protect a surface in the dental treatment area with crevices, knobs, or other difficult-to-clean features?
CDC (title and role)
What is the Center for Disease Control and Prevention? What is the agency who issues recommendations based on sow scientific evidence for health-related matters?
3 methods of chemical exposure
What are inhalation, absorption through skin, and ingestion?
Pathogen
What is the tern used to describe microorganisms that produce disease in humans?
Percutaneous injury
What is an injury through the skin such as a needle stick?
Bioburden
What are microbes and blood, saliva, and other body fluids present at the completion of dental treatment?
OSHA (title and role)
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration?
What is the federal regulatory agency responsible for ensuring the safety and health of America's workers?
General waste (definition and example)
What is nonhazardous, non-regulated waste?
What are paper towels, mixing pads, food containers?
Shape of cocci
What is a spherical shape?
Amount of time that dental aerosols stay suspended in the air
What are 24 hours?
Product used to kill mycobacterium tuberculosis
What are EPA registered hospital disinfectants?
NIOSH (title and role)
What is the National Institute for occupational Safety and Health?
What is the federal institute responsible for conducting research and making recommendations for the prevention of work-related disease and injury?
Hazardous waste (definition and example)
What is waste that is ignitable, corrosive, reactive, toxic, and/or listed by the EPA?
What are wastes that present a danger to humans or the environment?
Aerobes
What are bacteria that require oxygen to grow?
OSHA Blood-Borne Pathogens Standard
What is the law designed to protect employees against occupational exposure to blood-borne disease-causing organisms such as HBV, HIV, and HCV?
Purpose of instrument holding solution
What is used to keep contaminated instruments until they are ready to be placed in the ultrasonic and further processed for sterilization?
What are class I (dentist, assistant, hygienist), class II (receptionist), and class III (insurance clerk) exposure determinations?
Pathologic waste (definition and example)
What is medical waste that can be contaminated and cause an infectious disease?
What are body materials such as tissue, bone, or teeth?
The leading cause of death worldwide
What is tuberculosis?
Standard Precautions
According to the CDC, what are the precautions used to represent a standard of care designed to protect healthcare providers from pathogens that can be spread by blood or any other blood fluid, excretion, or secretion?
Critical items
What are dental instruments used to penetrate bone and/or soft tissues?
OSHA Hazard Communication Program 3 requirements
What are descriptions of staff training, how chemicals are handled in the office, and how to respond to chemical emergencies?
Handing of teeth with amalgam
What is disposed of with amalgam waste?