Oral Health and Dental Management

Abstract

Infection control in dentistry - present requirements

Lucia Barlean, Ioan Danila

The risk of infection spread in dentistry has to be a major concern within the framework of technical
and medical parameters under permanent change. The European dental education requires the
specialists in this field to have a high level of medical training, the standards for clinical skills and
abilities including knowledge on the control of “cross infection” and the prevention of physical,
chemical, and microbial contamination. This paper deals with the preventive assessment of the present
requirements on infection transmission: sources of infection, impact of some severe viral diseases
(HIV, HBV, HCV, SARS), environment, routes of transmission, devices, techniques, protocols, modern
materials used in infection control.