HTM 01 05, Dental Practice Design
HTM 01 05 – Dental Practice Design
Designing a dental practice with proper health and cleanliness standards is very much necessary to ensure the safety of both patients and healthcare workers in dental clinic. HTM 01 05 is one such standard introduced in 2009 by the Department of Health in UK to ensure proper decontamination procedures in dentist practices. HTM 01/05 or Health Technical Memorandum 01 05 is a document containing series of health regulations to be used as guidance in relation to the dental clinic decontamination in primary dental clinics.
HTM 01-05 not only provides comprehensive guidance on the whole of the instrument decontamination cycle, but also provides information on the kind of environment required to carry out this exercise safely. It is designed for use by the dentist, the clinical staff, the servicing engineer and the dental surgery builder while building dental clinic. It aims to provide dental workers knowledge of dental hygiene by cleaning, sterilization and disinfection.
According to bda a dentist best practice is the one with higher standards in infection control. The best dental practice continuously makes efforts for improvements in premises and equipment, changes in dental practice management for safest and best treatment of patients in clean, healthy and non-infectious environment. For a dentistry to satisfy the HTM 01 05 standards has to fulfill certain requirements. First of all there should be clear distinction between clean and dirty workflows in the clinic. The environment of dentist decontamination instruments should be clearly separated from the main clinical treatment area. There should be separate rooms for storage of ‘dirty’ and ‘clean’ instruments. A modern validated washer-disinfector of adequate capacity must be installed in the dirty instrument zone of the clinic in order to remove the need for manual washing of dentist instruments. Separate instrument storage should be built away from the surgery to reduce exposure to air and possible pathogenic contamination. Systems should ensure instruments are easily identified for selection and are used on a first-in, first-out principle within the recommended time frames. All these requirements when satisfied dentist surgery is said to designed according to HTM standards to possess best hygiene and health facilities.
In order to get clinic designed according HTM standards one should take help of dentist practice builders who have good knowledge of these standards. The designers who can design dental clinic according to your requirements and also takes care of the HTM factors at the same time are the best people to be approached for construction of HTM dentistry.
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