Dental Sterilization at BIDC

At BIDC, we regard hygienic standards at the highest level. BIDC always provides a safe and clean environment. BIDC imposes American JCI sterilization processes that are based on established scientific principles, hospital cleanliness standards and sterilization techniques.

At our thailand dental center, besides meeting and exceeding cleanliness bylaws from Thailand’s Ministry of Health, BIDC takes additional steps to abide by the guidelines set forth by the various international organization.

• American standards by Center of Disease Controls (CDC) and Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
• World Health Organization (WHO) 
• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE)
• Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
• Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
• Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI)
• American Dental Association (ADA) 
• US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

BIDC follows infection prevention & controls set out by international organization based on JCI standards. Patient, medication & facilities safety standards are based on scientific evidence protocols.

Sterilization policies and control are set up to provide a clean, disinfected environment for each patient in ensuring that all rooms and equipment are properly set up and sterilized daily and after each use. Initiatives taken for a clean and safe environment include details including ultra-violet and ozonation filtered water, disposable items, hand hygiene adherence and how general or infectious waste is disposed are looked at.

BIDC welcomes your questions and the opportunity to demonstrate how we handle sterilization techniques and patient protection. We want you to feel 100% comfortable about your treatment in our dental office.

Dental instruments are precision tools which require regular maintenance. All our equipments and instruments are maintained and sterilised according to international standards using CE certified sterilisation machines. Our clinical handpieces, dental units and other machines are selected not only for their technological advancements but also for their specific design focus on sterilization approaches.

Our dental appliances are individually packed and sealed by our impulse autosealer machine then autoclaved by our pre-vacuumed autoclave units in viewpacks for each patient. Every pack of dental appliances are dated to uphold high standards of sterilisation.

Individualized Dated Viewpacks

Instruments & equipment are impuse autrosealed. One-time bacteria resistant non-woven materials are used to seal, date each individual viewpack.

BIDC’s sterilization efforts goes further than sterilization standard requirements. At BIDC, single use non-woven materials are used to protect our sterilized dental instruments that are is more bacteria resistant than conventional woven wraps normally used at clinics and hospitals.

Extra steps are taken to ensure all our equipments are properly and fully sterilized. Our autoclave machines are tested daily for its effectiveness. Separate sterilization machines are kept for autoclaving instruments and clinical handpieces. Please see our sterilization machines and technologies for more details on our concentrated focus with regards to the area of sterilization. After instruments are autoclaved, instrument are re-checked, packed, dated and stored in a separate clean area
 
BIDC’s organizes its steriization rooms in separated clean and dirty areas in preventing any potential cross-contamination of instruments. Sterilized clean instruments are kept under controlled cool temperatures and humidity 24 hours a day throughout the week in preventing the bacteria growth. Backup generators are in place should a power supply disturbance occur.

Check Points

Visual checks after cold sterilization before autoclaving

BIDC clean room stores sterilized instruments under controlled temperatures & humidity

Sterilization Rooms at BIDC Building

Sterilization areas at BIDC dental center are divided into separate rooms and sections to avoid cross-contamination and a smooth flow of cleanliness. The clean room is kept at a constant temperature 24 hours.

 

Clean instruments are consistency re- checked, dated, stored separatedly in groupings. Expiry labels and autoclave batch are marked on each individual pack. Un-used cleaned instruments with back dates are re-sterilised.

Dental instruments at BIDC undergo several rounds of processing to ensure total safety and total sterilization has been met. Dental instruments are initially soak in rapid multi-enzyme detergent for pre-disinfectant cleaning. The enzymes digest all human secretions including blood, saliva, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids and mucopolysaccharides that carries possible bacteria and viruses. Thereafter, the instruments are placed in ultrasonic machines to clean and remove tiny or invisible dirt trapped in instrument corners or spiral.

At every stage of our dental instrument sterilization process, indicators and measurement monitoring are done to double check and re-confirm that instruments are sterile and our sterilization machines are performing. At BIDC, mechanical measurements on our autoclaving machines are charted at every machine cycle. Temperature, light differentiates, pressure gauge readings are recorded during each pre and post vaccuum autoclaving period.

Autoclave Checks

• Autoclave machines are checked after each cycle
• 3M chemical indicators are placed in individual instrument packs to check successful sterilization. Chemical indicator strips are checked for successfully sterilization.

For the autoclaved dental instruments, sterile tape external indicators mark the individual packs that have undergone steam sterilization.
 
Additionally, internal indicators using 3M Sterigage is also used to check that each parcel of critical dental instrument package has been exposed to steam at the correct temperature and time. The Steriage check is Class 5 level check, the highest level of examination, used to determine factors affecting treatment infection and death.