Bacterial Count Comparisons on Examination Gloves from Freshly Opened Boxes Versus Nearly Empty Boxes and From Examination Gloves Before Treatment Versus After Dental Dam Isolation

Journal of Endodontics

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 646-648

  Luckey, Jeffrey B ^a   Barfield, Robert D ^a   Eleazer, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL FACILITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDODONTICS; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SURGICAL GLOVE; TIME;

DENTAL OFFICES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GLOVES, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL, DENTAL; ROOT CANAL THERAPY; RUBBER DAMS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745224731     PISSN: 00992399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2005.09.017     Document Type: Article

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