How clean is your handpiece? Effective maintenance and reprocessing
How clean is your handpiece? Effective maintenance and reprocessing
This webinar will help dental professionals understand how to effectively manage and decontaminate burs and handpieces in line with decontamination and safety legislation in the UK.
Learning outcomes
- Understand why dental handpieces pose a risk to DCPs and patients when not correctly processed
- Identify areas within your own process that could be improved
- Understand the current requirements in England for requirements for processing dental handpieces.
- Identify the best method for decontaminating your handpieces.
Speaker: Chontelle Roberts
Chontelle is a highly experienced dental professional with more than 13 years in the industry, including a decade as a senior infection control lead. Her extensive hands-on clinical background, combined with her leadership in infection prevention, positions her as a trusted authority in dental compliance and best practice.
She holds an NVQ Level 3 in dental nursing alongside a range of additional professional qualifications gained throughout her career, reflecting her ongoing commitment to excellence and continued development.
Since joining Aura in December 2023 as a decontamination consultant, Chontelle has brought significant expertise to the team, supporting dental practices with complex areas such as dental unit waterlines, decontamination processes, handpiece management, and validation – ensuring the highest standards of safety, compliance and patient care.
This Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activity fully complies with the CPD requirements of the General Dental Council. FMC certifies this activity for one hour of enhanced CPD in the subject of How clean is your handpiece? Effective maintenance and reprocessing.
This CPD meets the criteria for the GDC’s development outcome C
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