Dr.Scott has implemented the following protocols for Sunrise Dental to follow during the Corona virus:
- Employee hand hygiene immediately after entering office.
- Take employee temp twice daily (morning and after lunch).
- Patient hand hygiene immediately after entering office.
- Collect forms or have patient sign consents/ Covid-19 questionnaire at Check-in.
- Provide patients with instructions to (1) keep 6 feet from all other persons when possible, (2) hand hygiene, and (3) respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette.
- Clear barrier separating front desk staff from patients. Otherwise, try to maintain distance when possible between front desk and patients when conducting office functions such as accepting payments, scheduling future appointments, etc.
- Patients need to wait in their personal vehicles or outside the dental office until
their appointment.
- Companions need to wait in their personal vehicles or outside the dental office.
- Separate patients by 6 feet in the waiting area
- Remove all items that cannot be disinfected from the waiting area and the operatories such as magazines, other paper materials, remote controls, toys, etc.
- Place barriers to cover high touch items when possible.
- Do not take patient’s paper records into the operatory.
- In addition to the regular disinfection protocol, disinfect waiting area between patients.
- Disinfect high touch surfaces often.
- Provide hand sanitizer throughout the dental office containing at least 60% alcohol.
- Repeat taking patient’s temperature and COVID-19 questionnaire before proceeding with dental appointment.
- Have patients pre-rinse with capful of diluted hydrogen peroxide to reduce harmful aerosols.
- Limit number of staff in operatory with the patient.
- Quadrant dentistry to minimize visits.
- Use professional judgement to limit aerosol generating procedures and employ the lowest aerosol generating procedures whenever possible.
- If possible, hand scale rather than ultrasonic scale.
- Only walk patient to hallway exit, do not pass checkout desk
- After disinfecting rooms and removing barriers, wrap room with new disposable barriers.
- Place air purifier in room if aerosols were used. Turn on at max level with uv light to kill aerosols in room before next patient.
- Place clean PPE on and get next patient in a new room.
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