Practice Safety

We have always had a policy to “stay ahead of the curve” with high tech equipment and facilities to improve treatment quality and safety. We are proud of our safety procedures and confident they are amongst the best you can find. Systems that are in routine use or when clinically required or requested:

For several years the practice has already been using:

Balanced Pressure Ventilation systems throughout the building

performs six air room changes per hour, with the air going through filters and a heat exchanger for safety and to be Eco-friendly.

Computerised Decontamination and sterilisation facilities

Computerised with bar-code tracking to eliminate human error. We know all instrument used on you are clean and sterile.

3) HEPA filtered High volume external suction

Removes airborne debris and aerosols from our procedures at source. Used for Air abrasion system but largely superseded by DentalAir (see below)

Barrier safety systems

 Rubber dam and the Isolite isolation systems are routinely used for treatment when possible. They are in-mouth barriers and high-volume suction that again control saliva and debris in the mouth as well as limiting aerosol generation and increasing comfort and safety.

Dentiguard, uses the safest most natural disinfectant known.

Based on Hypochlorous acid the same as used by the bodies own immune system.

Always improving and investing to keep you and us SAFE

We use fit-tested FFP3 masks where it is clinically required. This is worn at the discretion of the clinician or when a concerned patient requests as this is no longer mandatory for staff to wear.

We are still investing for upcoming treatment facilities!

Added Air-filtration and Precautions at Tangmere Dental Care

DentalAir External High Volume Suction Unit

“This “Aeroshield” barrier is now routinely used in all surgeries. There is a high volume suction and Hepa filtration unit that sucks away all aerosol direct from the point of production. This has been tested and validated by the practice as an extremely effective method to clean the air of any potential airborne cross infection risks.

If you feel that you are “at risk” as a patient or to a family member you can request high level special precautions. This will include staff wearing high level PPE and bypassing the reception and waiting areas with appointments and payments made by phone. You can wait and be called from your car in the adjacent free car park.

 

  • LEV High level PPE that is properly fit tested, so we know it is of high standard. Whilst Clinical staff are required to wear a surgical mask at all times during treatments and when in close contact to patients, the use of FFP3 masks is at clinicians discretion or when requested by concerned patients. The routine use of high level PPE is no longer mandatory (on the advice of Public Health England) for staff at all times.
  • Virus-Killer air filtration technology – Air purification units that kill all known pathogens including Coronavirus and all strains yet to come. It cleans the air away from the operating zone in the room where aerosol procedures are carried out and is additional the fresh-air ventilation system.
  • Upgraded high volume external extraction systems – The DentalAir LEV Air purification system incorporating Virus-Killer technology to suck away and kill any potential contaminants in the operating zone just above the mouth so any exhaled pathogens are virtually eliminated before they enter the surgery air in general.

See the Principal dentist Paul Liano evaluating the effectiveness of different methods of risk mitigation on this >>YouTube Link<< at a time when there was little or no evidence as what was effective at controlling airbourne infections.