Background and Overview This article reviews the literature on the subject of dental unit
waterline contamination. It has been expanded from the text of a lecture given at the Scientific …

Background This study evaluated the efficacy of combined intermittent and continuous
treatment with diluted sodium hypochlorite, or NaClO, to improve dental unit water quality in a …

Unlabelled Image Background The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research,
or NIDCR; the American Dental Association, or ADA; and the Organization for Safety & …

Ten dental units were surveyed for microbial contamination of the waterlines. All units were
found to be colonized with bacteria and fungi at levels ranging from 9.0 × 10 4 to 4.1 × 10 5 …

Background In response to concerns of bacterial biofilm colonization of dental unit waterlines,
a wide range of commercial intermittent and continuous chemical treatments for dental unit …

The microbial contamination of handpiece turbines was examined clinically. In 20
handpieces, no bacterial growth was found on any culture from an autoclaved or non-autoclaved …

Millipore HPC samplers are simple, self-contained test devices that can be used by
personnel in dental offices who do not have microbiologic training to easily and economically …

For centuries, waterborne disease has been a persistent scourge of civilization. The endemicity
of diseases such as cholera and typhoid fever in the world’s cities was assured by the …

A private clinic's dental unit water lines (DUWLs) were treated with a solution of 0.525%
sodium hypochlorite (5000 ppm active chlorine) in 1% acetic acid or a 0.525% sodium …

The authors conducted a study to determine the sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of HPC
Samplers (Millipore Corp.) as compared with that of R2A agar and HPC agar when used to …