Chapter 16: Infection Prevention and the Dental Radiographer
Learning Objectives
At the end of this module chapter, you will be able to:
16.1
- Define the key terms associated with infection control.
- Describe the rationale for infection control.
- Describe the three possible routes of disease transmission.
- Describe the conditions that must be present for disease transmission to occur.
- Discuss personal protective equipment (PPE), hand hygiene, sterilization and disinfection of instruments, and the cleaning and disinfection of the dental unit and environmental surfaces.
- Describe the infection control procedures that are necessary before x-ray exposure.
- Describe the infection control procedures that are necessary during x-ray exposure.
- Describe the infection control procedures that are necessary after x-ray exposure.
- Describe the infection control procedures that are necessary for digital imaging.
- Describe the infection control procedures that are necessary for film processing.
