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Why Dental Practices Should Adopt Stricter Biological Monitoring Guidelines

Stay Ahead of Potential Guideline Changes

For decades, instrument reprocessing guidelines for dental practices have differed from those in larger healthcare settings. However, a new AAMI (Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation) Working Group began working in 2021 to create guidelines for dental instrument processing based on best practices in the ST79 standard used in healthcare facilities.

Prevent Infections with these Helpful Tips ecervello@hu-f… Thu, 03/05/2020 - 13:04

Revisit our most popular infection prevention blogs, webinars, and eBooks for advice, resources, and reminders to help ensure a safe environment for your patients and staff

If you've been watching the news you know that infection prevention is top of mind. Moreover, it’s still flu season, and the CDC estimates that there have been between 32 and 45 million cases of the flu from October through the third week in February.

The Top Hu-Friedy Blog Posts of 2017 sjunca@hu-friedy.com Wed, 01/10/2018 - 17:45

Thank You for Your Readership and Engagement

In 2017, our first blog post started off with the headline Don’t read the new Hu-Friedy Blog!

Now, that was a tongue-in-cheek approach to actually encouraging blog readership, but only if you were interested in value add information and content that would help you perform at your best.

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Getting A Dirty Job Done. The Easy Way!

Quick tips to make your instrument processing thorough and safe

If you've ever watched the reality television show Dirty Jobs, you've probably concluded that dirty jobs are fun to watch or learn about, but not to do. However, these so-called "dirty jobs" play vital roles in society, keeping a world on the move going. When you think about it, especially on a microscopic level, instrument reprocessing is a dirty job, too, with countless microbes and organic debris being removed from the surfaces of instruments.