Guide to Basic Infection Prevention Practices

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KEY TAKEAWAYS:

• Discuss updated infection prevention guidelines issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Evaluate current infection prevention practices.
• Develop a checklist to review worker compliance with infection prevention practices.

To guard against the possibility of an employee inadvertently introducing COVID-19 into the dental laboratory, the author recommends reviewing the CDC's 2003 infection control guidelines for dentistry and the summary published in 2016.

This Inside Dental Technology eBook provides a continuing education (CE) article that focuses on the issues to be addressed by employers in the development of an effective infection prevention program based on those CDC guidelines.