A recent article published in The Lancet highlights a very serious problem that dentistry has faced, and left unresolved, for many years: contaminated dental unit waterlines. Ricci and colleagues ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued an emergency response and preparedness health advisory about outbreaks of nontuberculous mycobacteria infections that have ...

Dental waterlines have a particularly high risk of developing these biofilms, according to the CDC, because of their "long, small-diameter tubing and low flow rates used in dentistry and the ...

High levels of waterborne bacteria in dental waterlines have led to outbreaks of infection in children at certain dental offices, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Dental unit waterlines (DUWLs) are essential components of modern dental practices, facilitating water delivery during clinical procedures. However, their intrinsic design—a narrow lumen with ...

Rowpar Pharmaceutical's MicroClear dental unit waterline cleaner is being relaunched after having acquired newly required Environmental Protection Agency registration in all states except California, ...

Training for oral healthcare providers may not adequately prepare them to engage, let alone supervise, dental unit waterline (DUWL) infection control, according to research published in the Journal of ...

The EPA's Seattle office said the company, A-dec, applied in 2006 to register a dental waterline cleaner called ICX, designed to control contamination. It sold the product from 2006 to 2008 to ...