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✔✔Antiseptic - ✔✔Substance for killing microorganisms on the skin.
✔✔Bioburden - ✔✔Blood, saliva, and other body fluids.
✔✔Broad-spectrum Activity - ✔✔Capable of killing a wide range of microbes.
✔✔Chlorine Dioxide - ✔✔Effective, rapid-acting environmental surface disinfectant or
chemical sterilant.
✔✔Clinical Contact Surface - ✔✔Surface touched by contaminated hands, instruments
or spatter during dental treatment.
✔✔Disinfectant - ✔✔Chemical used to reduce or lower the numbers of microorganisms
on inanimate objects.
✔✔Environmental Surface - ✔✔Surface within a healthcare facility that is not directly
involved in patient care, but that may become contaminated during the course of
treatment.
✔✔Fungicidal - ✔✔A product that is capable of killing fungi.
, ✔✔Glutaraldehyde - ✔✔Environmental Protection Agency-registered high-level
disinfectant.
✔✔Greener Infection Control - ✔✔Minimizing the environmental impact of infection
control products and procedures.
✔✔High-level Disinfection - ✔✔Hospital disinfectant with tuberculocidal activity.
✔✔Hospital Disinfectant - ✔✔Disinfectant with the ability to kill Staphylococcus Aureus,
Salmonella choleraesuis, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
✔✔Housekeeping Surface - ✔✔Surface that is not contaminated during dental
treatment.
✔✔Immersion Disinfectant - ✔✔Disinfectant used for soaking of heat-sensitive
instruments.
✔✔Intermediate-level Disinfectant - ✔✔Liquid disinfectant with EPA registration as a
hospital disinfectant with tuberculocidal activity. It is used for disinfecting operatory
surfaces.
✔✔Iodophor - ✔✔EPA-registered intermediate-level hospital disinfectant.
✔✔Low-level disinfectant - ✔✔Disinfectant that destroys certain viruses and fungi; used
for general cleaning.
✔✔Precleaning - ✔✔Removal of bioburden before disinfection.
✔✔Residual Activity - ✔✔Action that continues long after initial application, as with
disinfectants.
✔✔Reuse Life - ✔✔Time period that a disinfectant should remain effective during use
and reuse.
✔✔Shelf Life - ✔✔How long a product may be stored before use.
✔✔Single-use Items - ✔✔Items that are used on only one patient and then are thrown
away.
✔✔Sodium Hypochlorite - ✔✔Surface disinfectant commonly known as household
bleach.