Laminar Air Purge of Microorganisms in Dental Aerosols: Prophylactic Procedures with the Ultrasonic Scaler
- 1 June 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Dental Research
- Vol. 49 (6) , 1498-1504
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00220345700490065701
Abstract
Studies of 50 patients undergoing prophylaxis in a dental operatory equipped with laminar airflow showed that from more than 40,400 viable particles containing one or more microbes collected from dental aerosols, about 40,267 were recovered when laminar air was not in use. Airborne contamination reductions of 99.7% were effected in the dental office when a vertical downflow of laminar, high efj"zcieney particulate filtered air was present.This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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