FAQs on hygiene of KaVo dental chairs.

• KaVo continuous germ reduction: By automatically adding KaVo Oxygenal 6 germ reduction liquid the amount of germs in the treatment water is continually reduced.
• The intensive germ reduction prevents the growth of micro-organisms during periods of stagnation. Therefore it guarantees a hygienic water supply for patients. During the intensive germ reduction, water-bearing tubes are automatically supplied with a 10x stronger concentration of KaVo Oxygenal 6. The intensive germ reduction program takes approximately 45 minutes, during which the stronger hydrogen peroxide concentration is active in the system for at least 30 minutes. KaVo recommends starting the intensive germ reduction before the weekend, holiday, etc. and leaving it to take effect over the downtime. The dental chair can be switched off at the start of the program. During commissioning the device is automatically rinsed until the normal concentration of Oxygenal 6 is reach in the device.
• All instruments on the dentist and assistant’s unit are rinsed with water every 20 seconds during the shortened rinse program (01). The rinse program (02) automatically rinses the water-bearing system for at least 2 minutes and rinses all of the instruments, including the tumbler filler. This enables a significant reduction in microbial accumulation which occurred during the stagnation period.

It is recommended to carry out the rinse program:

1. At the start of the working day (rinse program 02)
2. After each patient (shortened rinse program 01)

• The closed circular pipeline integrated into the dentist’s unit ensures a constant flow of sterilized treatment water (no dead volumes). Furthermore, the formation or build-up of biofilm is effectively prevented by the extremely smooth surfaces of the water-bearing Teflon instrument tubes.

Firstly, eye contact with a hydrogen peroxide solution should be avoided in any event which requires protective glasses to be worn. If, however, treatment water sterilized with Oxygenal 6 does come into contact with the eyes, they should immediately be rinsed with a large volume of water. Due to the low dosage of 0.02% H2O2 permanent damage is not likely.

As hydrogen peroxide is used in human medicine to rinse wounds and in dentistry for the local disinfection of dental tissue and for haemostasis, Oxygenal 6 presents no danger. Recent studies indicate that hydrogen peroxide does not only disinfect, but also activates the immune defence in wounded areas, in which white blood cells reside. This accelerates the healing process.

No cases have been made known so far and no allergies to hydrogen peroxide were detected. Patients with a known allergy to hydrogen peroxide are not permitted to come into contact with water treated with KaVo Oxygenal 6.

This is very dependent on how often the intensive germ reduction is carried out, and how often or with how much water the mouth rinsing sink is filled. In our experience, one bottle of Oxygenal lasts for approx. 4 to 6 weeks.

A special gel is developed with KaVo Dekaseptol. This product has the function to disinfect the suction system and the service water outlets in dental chairs.

For the KaVo HYDROclean hygiene system (only E70/D80) approx. 25 ml of DEKASEPTOL is pumped through the suction tubes into the suction system of the unit. In addition, approx.10 ml of DEKASEPTOL is dispensed into the spittoon bowl.

With an average total use of approx. 35 ml per use, one litre of DEKASEPTOL will last for approx. 28 HYDROclean cleaning cycles. For an average usage of once per day (more for surgical activities), the bottle must be filled approximately once per month.