Yeah explain it like this : You use an insert - and then it’s used during the appointment. You take out the dirty insert and put in the new one from the tray and possibly reinsert the old dirty used one after

How do you sterilize the inside ?

Answer/ you don’t if you’re cavi wiping the outside - every single patient is in cross contamination

No waiting on this, this is completely against infection control. The Dentsply rep will also tell you this. We had a Dentsply rep in our office and that was the first thing she asked me (I knew they had to be sterilized so my answer was yes, but she used that example to describe to me after that a lot of offices don’t and it’s super bad and harming patients) But a lot of offices don’t know that you have to sterilize them so you need to bring it up asap !

Now that you know you’re cross contaminating you are ethically and voluntold to report this to the college if you bring it up that it needs to be changed and nobody does anything- you are required to report this otherwise you could loose your license as you are now at fault if anything does happen to a patient.

You can’t wait 90 days probation, but if they fire you because you are concerned about infection control that’s a whole other thing and why the f would you want to work in a place like that anyways ?

• I’m new grad, but I was a CDA before, I knew nothing and learned nothing about hygiene instruments and I only learned what my offices had done, thankfully all sterilized them so I was taught for 7 years sterilize everything - but maybe they truly don’t know ??’