COVID-19 / Keeping you SAFE
As has always been the case, our dental office considers the overall health & well-being of our patients and our staff to be of paramount importance.
For that very reason, these are some of the changes that we have made in our daily operations:
- When possible, patients are pre-screened by telephone to see if they have any health conditions that may potentially endanger the health of other patients and staff by virtue of their having dental treatment rendered at our office.
- All patients are screened upon their arrival for their scheduled appointments for the same reasons as mentioned above. Anyone with signs, symptoms, or high risk of exposure to COVID-19 would be denied dental treatment until such time when it is deemed safe to treat them.
- In our continued efforts to maintain social distance, patients are asked to call our office upon their arrival in our parking lot. We will then notify them when it’s appropriate for them to enter the office. Patient dismissal also follows a social distance protocol.
- All patients are required to wear a mask upon entering and when leaving our office.
- We have installed plexiglass sneeze guards in the check-in and check-out areas of our front desk area.
- All patients are required to cleanse their hands with CDC approved hand sanitizer using our touchless dispenser upon entering the office and prior to passing through the reception area into the treatment area.
- Our reception room, until further notice, does not function as a waiting room. Instead, it is a patient screening room where one patient at a time is screened and a touch-free thermometer is used to record their body temperature. In addition to the treatment rooms, the reception room and restrooms are wiped down and disinfected throughout the workday.
- All patients, upon being seated in a treatment room, are required to rinse their mouths for 30 seconds with an anti-viral rinse.
- There are air purifiers that provide both HEPA & UV filtration located throughout the office.
- Enhancements include 300 CFM exhaust fans installed in the treatment rooms to further purify the air in the office.
- UV lighting has been installed in our air condition system to disinfect the cooled air prior to it being distributed throughout the office.
- The treatment rooms have touchless faucets.
- The faucet and the soap dispenser in the restroom are touchless.
- Oral Aerosol Evacuators are used in the treatment rooms to substantially reduce the spread of aerosol spray generated by the dental handpiece.
- Plastic barriers are used on the dental chairs and are changed after every single patient.
- We utilize weekly monitoring by a spore testing service for our instruments sterilizer in order to assure its proper function.
- Everything that we use during treatment that cannot be sterilized or properly disinfected is disposed of between patients.
- We meet or exceed sterilization, disinfection and sanitizing standards set by the CDC and OSHA.
As the world around us changes, we will always strive to be one step ahead in changing with it to ensure the health and well-being of our patients.