Managing a dental clinic and the dental equipment’s maintenance checklist is no easy job. Routine cleaning, sanitising, and maintenance are essential for the client's and staff's safety. However, it's great to have a dental equipment maintenance checklist to ensure you stay on top of the cleaning and everything runs smoothly. By keeping up with your maintenance checklist will make all your dental equipment last so much longer, essentially saving you heaps of money! So, what is the checklist? We have broken it down into daily, weekly, monthly, and annual maintenance tasks for you.

Daily
- You must check infectious and hazardous sharps/waste containers and replace them if needed. This is important so no contamination or injuries occur.

- Sterilize and lubricate any handpieces.

- Flush water through the handpiece waterlines between each of your patients.

- Flush water through the air and water syringes.

- It’s an absolute must to clean and disinfect all operation equipment after each patient.

- Lubricate the nose cones, prophy angles, and contra-angle between every client.

- Run the suction cleaner through any operational HVE as well as the saliva ejector tubes.

- Thoroughly clean and disinfect the delivery unit traps.

- Drain out and wipe down the ultrasonic cleaners.

Weekly
- Analyse and check for any safety hazards in the space.

- Remove old traps and replace them with a new one for the delivery units.

- Check the current gaskets on the handpieces and replace them if necessary.

- Check the current O-rings on the handpiece couplers and replace them if necessary.

- Conduct a biological spore test for each of the sterilizers to ensure there is no contamination

Monthly
- Sit in the dental chair and analyse if the office around you is clean. This gives you the perspective of the patient thus cleans what is necessary.

- Check the current master traps. Clean or replace if necessary.

- Check the current plaster traps. Clean or replace if necessary.

- Check and clean the model trimmers.

- Check all the patients monitoring equipment is meeting the requirements and working properly.

- Analyse the nitrous oxide systems and all the emergency oxygen units. Ensuring that they are all properly functioning and don’t have to be repaired or replaced.

Annually
- Review and refresh with your staff the emergency procedures.

- Change the oil from the compressor.

- Plan an inspection, certification, and calibration of all the x-ray equipment.

- Examine the smoke alarms, fire extinguisher, and emergency lighting. Replace them if necessary.

- Replace the cassette seals and the sterilizer door gaskets

- Overview of the current state guidelines and conduct OSHA training, as well as the HIPAA and OSHA.

By sticking to these checks lists and ensuring that they are completed properly will increase your dentist equipment's lifespan and essentially save you heaps of money in the long run. If you have realised you are needing to replace or repair your dentist equipment, head to Confidential Equipment for the high-quality equipment at an extremely competitive price.