Dentist Finder San Diego » dental instruments http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog What's New in Dental News Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:17:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 235 Patients Exposed To Dirty Instruments http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/235-patients-exposed-to-dirty-instruments/ http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/235-patients-exposed-to-dirty-instruments/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:15:49 +0000 Dentist Finder http://blog.dentistfindersandiego.com/blog/?p=363 (Australia) Queensland’s Chief Health Officer, Dr. Jeannette Young, admitted it took a week for staff at Bundaberg Hospital dental health clinic to realize non-sterilized dental instruments had been used on patients. As many as 235 people could have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis after the November 6 incident.

She said a clinic worker had prepared dental instruments, including incision tools, for sterilization in an autoclave but forgot to switch the…

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