Waste streams

Question 1

What is placed in the orange lid container with yellow main bit?

Answer 1

Sharps, empty local, burs, matrixes, scalpels etc

Question 2

What is placed in the blue lid and yellow container?

Answer 2

Prescription only meds, local cartridges with some left, Epi pen

Question 3

What is placed in the red lid yellow container?

Answer 3

Teeth with amalgam fillings

Body waste e.g. blood bags

Special waste

Question 4

What is placed in the white container with red lid?

Answer 4

Amalgam waste

Question 5

What is the correct order for wiping down a unit?

Answer 5

Begin with the light and the light arm

Then the dental chair

Then work surfaces and handles that have been touched

Cables and tubing on bracket table for handpiece etc

Then bracket table

Then aspirator tubing and spittoon