Dirty Denture Repairs

[Patrick Coon]

Lol, no one takes you seriously my friend.

I know.

I'm just gonna take my keyboard and go home. I got a beer waiting on me there.

 

[2thm8kr]

I know.

I'm just gonna take my keyboard and go home. I got a beer waiting on me there.

After the day I just had I'll match you.

 

[Patrick Coon]

After the day I just had I'll match you.

sorry to hear! I think of you (briefly) as I have my Hoegarden.

 

[TomZ]

Ty D Bol, not the blue

 

[JMN]

Ty D Bol, not the blue

Sounds only fair. Some of them have made me so nauseous I was flush.

 

[Flipperlady]

Question for you denture folks. We are a fixed lab and have started doing a bit of removable work. I have looked around on the web and have not been able to get any good answers so... This is my question, how do you handle dirty dentures that come in for repair? We have had a couple come thru that were just plain disgusting. Do you just return them and refuse to work on them, try to clean them, just work around the yuck? If you are cleaning them, how?

I apologize if you were eating when you opened this.

Probably the worst denture repairs i see are the maxillary denture of heavy smokers. they are usually black and smell terrible... I disinfect in a diluted bleach solution and even then with gloves and mask the smell is almost unbearable, theses are almost always a mid-line fracture and lots of time is spent polishing off the tar and nicotine on the rest of the palate after the repair ;-p As for eating, this is nothing compared to what I saw years ago assisting for surgery chair-side, I've seen inside patients sinuses, vacuumed out big green abscesses and vacuumed out the blood on full mouth extractions, never once has any of this stopped me from eating lunch lol

 

[rkm rdt]

Really not much different than those taco Tuesday posts.

 

[JMN]

Really not much different than those taco Tuesday posts.

You thought that was Guacamole huh?

 

[rkm rdt]

That's exactly where I was going with this.

 

[kcdt]

Question for you denture folks. We are a fixed lab and have started doing a bit of removable work. I have looked around on the web and have not been able to get any good answers so... This is my question, how do you handle dirty dentures that come in for repair? We have had a couple come thru that were just plain disgusting. Do you just return them and refuse to work on them, try to clean them, just work around the yuck? If you are cleaning them, how?

I apologize if you were eating when you opened this.

You realize denture techs have strong stomachs?

 

[kcdt]

Lol, no one takes you seriously my friend.

Daaamn. You're on a roll

 

[kcdt]

Get a renfert sympro if your serious about doing repairs, clean them first and charge for it.

http://www.renfert.com/usa/en/products/equipment/cleaning/denture-cleaning/sympro.html

Love this. Does a great job

 

[JMN]

Question for you denture folks. We are a fixed lab and have started doing a bit of removable work. I have looked around on the web and have not been able to get any good answers so... This is my question, how do you handle dirty dentures that come in for repair? We have had a couple come thru that were just plain disgusting. Do you just return them and refuse to work on them, try to clean them, just work around the yuck? If you are cleaning them, how?

I apologize if you were eating when you opened this.

http://dentallabnetwork.com/forums/threads/gag-reflex-still-got-one.25636/

 

[kcdt]

Ty D Bol, not the blue

Blue will stain?

 

[rkm rdt]

 

[Lighthouse]

We have an employee who said at one lab she worked at, they would try to clean the denture with glass beads. To me, that would infect that whole station.

We use lots of cavicide, gloves, glasses and we keep our mouths closed.

 

[JMN]

We have an employee who said at one lab she worked at, they would try to clean the denture with glass beads. To me, that would infect that whole station.

We use lots of cavicide, gloves, glasses and we keep our mouths closed.

You need masks too. Keeping your mouth closed just means you're getting it in your nose, respiratory tract, and on your face to intake with the next coffee sip.

 

[JMN]

We have an employee who said at one lab she worked at, they would try to clean the denture with glass beads. To me, that would infect that whole station.

We use lots of cavicide, gloves, glasses and we keep our mouths closed.

https://shop.benco.com/Product/3084...lergenic-pleated-headband-face-mask-box-of-35

These work well, I can still get a negative air pressure response even with facial hair.

 

[rkm rdt]

The blue brings out your eyes.

 

[JMN]

The blue brings out your eyes.

And you're a shrewd mammal.