Running a subpar autoclave puts your dental practice at a higher risk of spreading infections, cross-infection, and contamination. One of the key factors to achieving proper infection control in dental practices is having the most effective equipment. This includes an autoclave that meets international standards and all the regulatory requirements.

As a dentist, dental hygienist, or support staff at a dental clinic, you know that having a reliable, effective autoclave is essential to the smooth operation of the clinic. Also called a steam sterilizer, the autoclave is the machine that harnesses the power of high temperature and high-pressure steam in order to sterilize germs on dental equipment, such as forceps, intended for reuse, thus ensuring its safety for the next patient.

Many patients visiting your office is great for business but can result in an increased risk of infection if you are overloading your autoclave. Having an additional autoclave as a backup will help your clinical team to avoid overloading the primary autoclave and avoiding issues and frustrations.

This article will provide clinicians with helpful suggestions for an efficient and consistent process, or flow, with the instrument processing cycle. Sometimes the clinical day is not as smooth as it could be.

Autoclaves are a critical part of effective infection control in the dental office. Whether you are looking to purchase your next autoclave, an additional autoclave, or your first autoclave, there are a number of considerations. Let’s focus in on tabletop autoclaves, the most frequently used in dental clinics.

A new pre-sterilization cycle to treat the viruses that may reside inside the autoclave chambers. For our class B dental and medical autoclaves.

A free-standing, Class B Autoclave. Suitable for large medical & dental clinics, and operating rooms, yet simple and easy to use as any tabletop autoclave.

The latest trend in dental clinic design, is simplifying and automating the practice, using AI and WIF connectivity. The more the dentist invests in intelligent technology the more productive him and his staff will become.

What is an autoclave? How does an autoclave work? We'll focus on the autoclave sterilization cycle process and walk you through the different autoclave cycle stages.