Procedimientos de limpieza desinfección y esterilización de las fresas utilizadas en pacientes de las Clínicas Odontológicas de la Universidad Santo Tomás

Abstract

Objective: To verify the procedures of sanitation, disinfection and sterilization of the dental burs, which are handled with the patients at the dental clinics of the University Santo Tomas campus of Floridablanca and Bucaramanga. Materials and methods: An observational descriptive transversal cut analysis was realized to determine the procedures of sanitation, disinfection and sterilization of the dental burs, which are being used with the patients who attend the dental service at the University Santo Tomas. A verification was realized to determine which procedures of sanitation, disinfection and sterilization, the students are performing with the dental burs, selecting a group of students and observing these procedures. Students who did not proceed their dental burs to the autoclave, were collected and deposited in a cultured stock media, then taken to the Laboratory of Basic Science of the University where they were incubated for a period of 24 hours at a temperature of 37°C, and the presence or absence of bacteria’s were Results: According with the obtained data, 52% (26) of the students do not proceed their dental burs to sterilize in the autoclave opposite to 48% (24) who carry out their dental burs to the sterilization central, 57% (15) of the dental burs that were cultured presented negative evidence of bacterial growth opposite to a 42% (11) which resulted in bacterial growth. Conclusion: Students are not following the biosecurity protocols in the clinics and the professors who are present in their respective clinics are not verifying the procedures of sanitation, disinfection and sterilization of the dental burs which are used with the patients that are being ministered in the clinics of the USTA.