Applications
Dental & Health Clinics
Water quality in clinical environments is particularly important to protect patients from infection and maintain infection control regimes. The water used in both private and public dental and health clinics is regulated by international quality standards and closely monitored by local municipalities and national health authorities. International standards are set at a maximum 100CFU/ml with zero Legionella.
One of the main problems in dental and health clinics is bacterial growth in small-bore water pipes such a dental water lines. Layers of bacterial biofilm are created within the pipe networks which contaminate the water flow resulting in patient contact and acquired infection. Maintaining the water quality is therefore a critical priority for all clinics.
The benefits of using ECA dental and health clinics include:
- Eliminate all microbial contamination in the water supplies
- Eliminate biofilm in the pipe networks, destroying the principle source of contamination
- Achieve rapid compliance with Municipality & International Water Quality Standards
- On-site, on-demand generation of safe and effective biocide
- Very low dosing rates for protection
- All hard and soft materials in contact with treated water also sterilised
- Patients and staff fully protected
- No corrosion of materials
- No by-products associated with traditional chemical treatments – no trichloromethanes, trihalomethanes and bromates
- Anolyte can be used for surface cleaning throughout Clinics and for specialist sterilisation routines
- No procurement needed, no inventory, no disposal
- Easy automated operation and minimum operations and maintenance
- Very small environmental and carbon footprint
- Very low cost of operation
5 stages of biofilm development.
Stage 1: Initial attachment
Stage 2: Irreversible attachment
Stage 3: Maturation
Stage 4: Multiplication and cooperation
Stage 5: Dispersion
Each stage of development in the diagram is paired with a photomicrograph of a developing P. aeruginosa biofilm. All photomicrographs are shown to the same scale.
