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Swipe of a Wipe Cleans What Can’t Be Seen
DPS readers rely on SciCan’s OPTIM surface disinfectants to keep their operatories safe and compliant, including the 1-step OPTIM OS1 wipes
Nobody ever cries over spilled milk. It’s just a quick swipe of a wipe and we’re on to the next thing. But in dentistry, just because a surface is clean does not mean it’s disinfected, and “cleaning is the necessary first step of any disinfection process.”* And that’s where OPTIM OS1 wipes step into the picture.
Wipe Away Bacteria in 1 Easy Step
OPTIM OS1 is a 1-step cleaner-disinfectant wipe with superior wettability that removes soil and hard-to-kill organisms. A cost-efficient addition to any practice, the durable wipes clean and disinfect twice the surface area of the leading quats-alcohol wipes with just 1 wipe, and they do so without exposing staff to harmful VOCs or the risk of irritant-induced occupational asthma.¹
Free of fragrance and dyes, OPTIM OS1 wipes feature a proprietary LAS Active System, which combines a powerful surfactant base with fast-acting disinfection to kill over 40 organisms—including bacteria, viruses, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and emerging pathogens—in just 1 minute on hard, nonporous surfaces.
“The LAS Active System sounds like a complex chemical process, but it’s actually very simple yet brilliant,” shared Marie T. Fluent, DDS, CDIPC, FACD, a dental infection control consultant who has a clever way of describing LAS.
“ …OPTIM OS1 wipes the entire micelle away, cleaning and disinfecting in just 1 motion.”
—Marie T. Fluent, DDS, CDIPC, FACD
“When a fly touches a Venus flytrap plant, the trap shuts, and the plant secretes an enzyme to kill and digest the insect,” she explained. “With the LAS Active System, when the surfactant molecule encounters a debris or microorganism on the surface, the tail of the molecule entraps the debris by forming a micelle, and then penetrates the bacterial cell membrane to kill the bacteria. Then, OPTIM OS1 wipes the entire micelle away, cleaning and disinfecting in just 1 motion.
Clean & Disinfect with Confidence
Most practices encounter a wide range of microorganisms every day—none of which can be seen by the naked eye.
“If a wipe can kill Mycobacterium tuberculosis, as is the case with OPTIM OS1, it will also kill other microorganisms team members are likely to encounter on surfaces,” said Dr. Fluent. “That’s because other viruses, bacteria, and fungi generally require lesser contact times to be effective.”
Emphasizing the value of SciCan’s expertise in the infection control space, Dr. Fluent recalled when SciCan rep Christina Masengale helped a practice prioritize safety and ensure compliance. “I was blown away with her familiarity with the office and choke points within their protocols. I knew that I could trust her to make the most informed decisions for this practice,” she shared.
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all-in-ONE™
Surgical Instrument Cleaners and Conditioners
Highly concentrated for fast and effective cleaning.
Imagine: all-in-ONE™ Surgical Instrument Cleaners and Conditioners replacing multiple products, lowering costs, and improving the performance of surgical instruments.
The easy FOAM-it™ Surgical Instrument Pre wash Cleaner delivers a thick layer of long lasting foam cleaners and conditioners to speed the cleaning process. The easy FOAM-it Prewash and Cleaner rapidly breaks down all form of proteinaceous bioburden, cleans the surface and then rinses clean, rendering a residue free surface. When water is added or the instrument is placed into a wash basin, the foam dissipates to present a clear working surface, and no other cleaning products are needed. The easy-FOAM-it is highly concentrated to deliver all you need in ONE application.
In ONE application the easy FOAM-it can replace:
- enzyme cleaners,
- surgical instrument cleaning detergents,
- STAIN removers,
- surface conditioners, and
- surgical instrument lubricants
For the surgical instrument cleaning process to be thorough, four surgical instrument cleaner enzymes are needed:
- Lipase Surgical Instrument Cleaner Enzymes: for fat
- Amylase Surgical Instrument Cleaner Enzymes: for starch
- Carbohydrase Surgical Instrument Cleaner Enzymes: for high starches
- Protease Surgical Instrument Cleaner Enzymes: for blood
Four enzymes are necessary to breakdown bioburden on soiled surgical instruments. Surgical instrument cleaners that do not contain these four enzymes cannot remove all forms of proteinaceous bioburden. The only other product that delivers these 4 enzymes is RUHOF within their higher tier products.
The easy FOAM-it™ lays down a thick blanket to hydrate and remove proteinaceous debris, hard water deposits, and encrusted stains, for fast acting enzyme detergent cleaning action. When water is added the ‘foam’ dissipates to provide a clear ‘free-rinsing’ cleaning and conditioning solution.
- The all-in-ONE™ Cleaners and Conditioners deliver a unique formulation of detergents and multi-tiered "high-level" enzymes (Protease, Amylase, Lipase, and Carbohydrase) within a Neutral pH surfactant chemical complex.
- The all-in-ONE™ rapidly breaks down and removes all forms of proteinaceous bioburden, cleans and conditions the surface, enhances the “passive layer” protection of surgical stainless steel, lubricates moving parts, and then rinses clean.
- The highly concentrated all-in-ONE™ cleaners are aggressive against your most difficult cleaning challenge and guaranteed to be safe for all types of metal, rigid and flexible scopes, lenses, microsurgical instrumentation and reprocessing equipment.
- The all-in-ONE™ highly concentrated Surgical Instrument Cleaners and Conditioners will deliver 512 to 256 gallons (1938 to 969 liters) of Surgical Instrument Cleaning and Conditioning power.
- 🧪The Dilution rate is .25 to .5 ounces per gallon (1.92 ml per liter to 3.85 ml per liter) depending on level of bioburden, encrustation and stains.
Enzyme Surgical Instrument Detergent Optimal Temperatures:
🌡️The optimal temperature for maximum enzymatic enzyme detergent cleaning performance peaks at 137 degrees Fahrenheit (137 degree Fahrenheit ≈ 58.33 degree Celsius). The cleaning activity of the enzyme detergents at temperatures below and above this point is less but does offer cleaning value. The cleaning activity of the enzyme detergents does not stop at this temperature but is does lessen as the temperature increases.
all-in-ONE™ Surgical Instrument Cleaners and Conditioners
- ONE product for cleaning and conditioning Surgical Instruments.
- ONE application to thoroughly clean and condition Surgical Instruments.
- Apply it ONCE...
- It's all you really need for cleaning and conditioning Surgical Instruments and Scopes.
Replace Cleaning and Conditioning products for:
- removing all forms of bioburden,
- pre-cleaning and soaking to remove stains,
- manual cleaning,
- Ultrasonic cleaning, and
- Washer Decontaminator Disinfector reprocessing.
Your cleaner instruments will look newer and perform longer.
all-in-ONE™ Surgical Instrument Cleaning and Conditioning liquid available now as:
- easy FOAM-it™ 32 ounce applicator bottle [12 bottles per case]
- gallons [4 per case] with 0.25oz dispenser pump
- 2.5 gallon dispenser container [2 per case]
- 5 gallon dispenser container
- 15 gallon dispenser container
- 30 gallon dispenser container
- 55 gallon drum
*https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/rr/rr5217.pdf
Acute antimicrobial pesticide-related illnesses among workers in healthcare facilities,
CA, LA, MI, TX, 2002-2007. CDC Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,
May 14, 2010.
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