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Sal the 1st — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 23:54:47 GMT

I am only using distilled water at the minute but now regularly flushing the system with dilute chlorhex, ( I haven't used Milton because it is corrosive where metals are concerned) I have since spoken to a retired dentist in the village and he tells me I could have had the same effect by adding a little potassium permanganate -Condy's crystals( which we have anyway for cauterising nails) to the water without buying the chlorhex - which is exactly what the dentists used to do.

I spent ages looking into this and I am hoping that I have now satisfied the remit to find a solution which increases patient and operator safety (primary concern from a H+S pov was legionella)

I came across this on my search which I found quite useful http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4119368/

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Sat, 16 Jul 2016 20:30:51 GMT

Having done loads of work with David Crossley he only has distilled water in. And given who he is l would go by that if it is a help :-)

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Anne Watkins — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:12:11 GMT

Distilled water and then we descale the water container weekly.

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Louise Northway VNCertECC NCert(Anaesth) RVN — Thu, 30 Jun 2016 14:55:46 GMT

We just use distilled water in our dental machine, and after scaling we use antiseptic solutions such as HEXARINSE (i think its made by Virbac) to clean the mouth prior to waking the animal up :)

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 00:31:55 GMT

thanks everybody for the replies yes they have been helpful

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Karen Carver — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 16:23:28 GMT

Hi Sal,

We use distilled water and CLS chlorhexidine solution. If you use chlorhexidine in dental machines it must be suitable for the machine and must also be put into a brown water container - as its light sensitive. Should also not be used during oral surgery and generally for the cleaning process.

Also if you buy from the company directly its much cheaper We're now paying £7ish a bottle instead of £11 from the wholesaler.

Hope thats useful x

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PSA-David — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:39:56 GMT

hi Sal, I always used distilled water. never chlorhex!

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molladog — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:49:01 GMT

Same here, that's what we were told when the machine was installed by the company.

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jojofruits — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:34:38 GMT

Just purified water over here:)

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Lee484 — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 16:25:06 GMT

We just have distilled water in the bottle. We have Hexarinse on the side to flush the mouth with after the dental.

Our dental guy told us to flush the machine through with Miltons weekly - seems to be doing ok so far.

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ereveley — Sun, 05 Jun 2016 20:26:23 GMT

We use distilled water with CLS solution.

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Sal the 1st — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 23:13:00 GMT

thanks thats pretty much what we were doing at previous place, but what is everybody doing where a procedure lasts more than 20 - 30 minutes as I was given to understand that chlorhex should not be used in prolonged procedures due to the risk of mucosal irritation and oedema? ( or maybe this was just another way of stopping us using it?)

The other reason we stopped using it at previous practice was that guy who serviced the dental machine told the boss that it had wrecked the machine, which I think had more to do with the fact the boss was telling us to use tap water rather than distilled in a hard water area - I think it was limescale that wrecked the machine not the chlorhex, but what do I know?

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SVN Kent — Sat, 04 Jun 2016 20:01:20 GMT

Hi Sal

we were advised by Burtons to use distilled water, empty and refil bottle before/after use, monthly flush through,depending on weekly use, with dilute chlorhex solution,no ratio given then rinse through with distilled water.