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7. DISINFECTION, CLEANING AND STERILIZATION:
First clean and decontaminate the instruments and their supports. Then decontaminate and sterilize them out of
their environment (in bags) with the autoclave at 134°C and 3 bar during 18 minutes.
7.1 General recommendation
- Single use marked instruments are not approved for re-use.
- The user is responsible for the sterility of the product for the fi rst cycle and each further usage as well as for
the usage of damaged or dirty instruments.
- For your own safety, please wear personal protective equipments (gloves, glasses).
- Use only disinfecting solution which is approved for their effi cacy (DGHM-listing, CE marking, FDAapproval)
- Tungsten Carbide burs, Plastic Support, Hand instruments and NiTi instruments are degraded by Peroxide
hydrogen (H2O2) solution.
- NiTi Instruments are degraded if immerged more than 5 minutes in a solution of NaOCl at more than 5 %.
- Instruments made of aluminium are degraded in presence of caustic soda solutions with mercury salt.
- Do not use acid (pH < 6) or alkaline (pH > 8) solutions.
- After 5 cycles, degradation of marking may appear.
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