Decontamination in primary care dental practices - Gov.uk

Decontamination: Health Technical Memorandum 01-05 – Decontamination in primary care dental practices (2013 edition)7 Impressions, prostheses and orthodonticappliances7.1 Decontamination of these devices is a multi-stepprocess to be conducted in accord with the deviceor material manufacturer’s instructions. In generalterms, the procedure will be as follows:a. Immediately after removal from the mouth,any device should be rinsed under clean runningwater. This process should continue until thedevice is visibly clean.b. All devices should receive disinfection accordingto the manufacturer’s instructions. This willinvolve the use of specific cleaning materialsnoted in the CE-marking instructions. Afterdisinfection, the device should again bethoroughly washed. This process should occurbefore and after any device is placed in apatient’s mouth.c. If the device is to be returned to a supplier/laboratory or in some other fashion sentout of the practice, a label to indicate that adecontamination process has been used shouldbe affixed to the package.42