Mixing Sticks & Dispensing Accessories
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About mixing and dispensing accessories
These are the disposable wells, dishes, sticks, straws and handles used to hold, mix and carry small amounts of material at the chair, rather than to touch the tooth. A reusable container of dental material is a clinical contact surface on the CDC list, and such surfaces can go on to contaminate other instruments, devices, hands or gloves. The CDC says to use single-use devices for one patient only and dispose of them appropriately, and notes that most carry no reprocessing instructions from the maker.
These hold and mix the material that the applicators then carry.
Sources: CDC, Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings — 2003 (MMWR 2003;52(RR-17)) · CDC, Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Sterilization and Disinfection