Infection control protocol in prosthodontic laboratory- a review article

Prevention is always better than cure. We the dentist are more prone to the infection causing microorganism and also, we act as carrier for many infections to patient and also for the laboratory technician, the laboratory technician is at high risk of cross infection. There are many ways to protect all of us from infection causing microorganism .one is the most important method of prevention is disinfecting. For proper disinfecting we firstly need to know thoroughly about routes of transmission of disease, prevention of disease and various method of infection control. we should also need to have knowledge on disinfectants which are used for disinfecting the various laboratory materials and clinically used material. The technicians should have a proper knowledge about personal protection which is to be used while various processing procedure like trimming, polishing, etc.