Decon Pete

Decon Pete – how to ensure ultrasonic cleaners meet UK guidance requirements

Decon Pete explains how to ensure you are meeting UK guidance requirements with your ultrasonic cleaners and what records to…

Dentistry

Dental news you’ve missed this week

Missed out on this week’s dental news? No problem, here’s what happened over the past seven days… More than 70%…

Dentistry

Decon Pete – the role of UK decontamination and interpretation of the guidance

With confusing and subjective guidance on decontamination in dentistry, Decon Pete tries to clarify how practices can interpret the documents.…

Dentistry

Decon Pete – importance of in-practice training

Decon Pete discusses the importance of in-practice training and encouraging good infection control.  As a core CPD subject, decontamination and…

Dentistry

Decon Pete – autoclave testing and validation

This month Decon Pete takes a look at the testing and validation protocols for washer disinfectors and autoclaves. The testing…

Dentistry

Out of office – Decon Pete on growing his own fruit and vegetables

Pete Gibbons – also known as Decon Pete – talks about growing his own food and what it’s like being…

Dentistry

Decon Pete – the importance of water quality

Within dentistry, water quality is an extremely important element that needs maintaining to reduce any potential pathogen risk, Pete explains…

Dentistry

Decon Pete – manual or automatic cleaning?

Manual cleaning versus automatic cleaning – Pete explains why now is the time to make the leap to using washer…

Dentistry

Decon Pete – what can we do to reduce dental aerosol?

This month Pete looks at how making small changes to the dental instruments we use can help reduce the amount…

Dentistry

Decon Pete – COVID-19 and 2020 – what a year!

Introducing Decon Pete who will discuss everything dental practices need to know about disinfection and decontamination. In his first column,…

Dentistry