Post-COVID-19 What You Need to Know

 

Your Safety is Our Top Priority

We understand that circumstances have changed, and we have adapted to meet those circumstances to ensure your health, safety, and security as your trusted Richardson Dentist. We’ve set in place the following precautionary measures to ensure we all (patients & team) remain protected. These are subject to change.

CHECK IN/OUT:

  • Please wear a mask in common areas such as the waiting room and hallways.

  • We will make every effort to streamline check in and check out so your stop at the front desk will be quick.

Clinical Team:

  • The team will be equipped in gloves and masks like normal, with the addition of lab jackets.

  • The team will continue with strict hand hygiene before and after contact with patients and instruments.

  • In addition to our standard disinfection and sanitation, we will extend our routine cleaning procedures into the waiting room, front desk area, and restroom. A cleaning crew will continue to come in nightly to sanitize the entire office.

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Check out our extra cleaning practices:

Here is Kendall, our hygienist, using our cold fogger to sanitize her operatory. It’s super easy to use but most importantly, super effective at inactivating viruses including the corona virus.

Here’s what we do: after we clean and disinfect per routine and national dental guidelines, we fog the entire room after each and every patient. The fog gets into all the spaces of our room and hangs in the air a bit. The solution we use is HOCl or hydrochlorous acid. HOCl has been used for years in many industries like restaurants, healthcare facilities and water treatments.

Unlike chlorine bleach, it’s 100% safe, non-irritating and not corrosive. We think that’s a win-win. And we will do what it takes to keep patients and our team and families safe!

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Check out our N95 masks:

We are all equipped with N95s here even though they are all different kinds. The reason for the different kinds is partly due to the overwhelming demands for PPP but also because the fit is very important to the mask working to protect us and protect our patients.

Our masks are a variety of N95s and KN95s but all have the NIOSH approval. They of course do not have an exhaust valve meaning our masks filter both in and out, keeping our patients safe. And they are securely fit to our faces so that the masks can properly work.

And yes! Masks do work! So please wear your face coverings in public. Scientific publications have shown this over and over again. We know our day-to-day is pretty miserable right now with all the restrictions but if we all wear masks, maybe we can get out of this sooner than later.