Review Article
Lucia Barlean, Ioan Danila
Abstract
The risk of infection spread in dentistry has to be a major concern within the framework of technical and medical parameters under permanent change. The European dental education requires the specialists in this field to have a high level of medical training, the standards for clinical skills and abilities including knowledge on the control of “cross infection” and the prevention of physical, chemical, and microbial contamination. This paper deals with the preventive assessment of the present requirements on infection transmission: sources of infection, impact of some severe viral diseases (HIV, HBV, HCV, SARS), environment, routes of transmission, devices, techniques, protocols, modern materials used in infection control.