Reduce The Risk of Viruses in Your Dental Office With a Pura Air Purification System

Dental spray is created because of the compressed air and liquid in the dental industry. This forms an invisible cloud of solid and liquid particles that may be composed of water, saliva, plaque and microorganisms such as viruses and bacteria. Dental aerosols form as large splatter (>50 microns), droplets (10 – 50 microns) or droplet nuclei (<10 microns). 90% of all dental aerosols are smaller than 5 microns.

How Aerosols Spread in Dental Offices

Because of the nature of dentistry the spread of infection in a dental office is due to bodily fluids of an infected patient coming in contact with surfaces, instruments, or infectious particles that are airborne.

Unlike a hospital environment, patient cannot be isolated or masked, and there are no ways of treatment after masking a patient.  The importance of controlling the disbursement of aerosols is critical in limiting the effects of viruses like Covid-19 and Influenza.

Why Pura Air Purification is the Right Solution For Your Dental Office

Pura Air has developed a centralized air filtration and purification system to address the issues in dental aerosols cause in a dental office. It is based on the best practices outlined by the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®). We start by addressing the risk at the source, provide appropriate airflow, which is scaled to industrial ventilation standards, drawing contaminated air through a filtration unit that purifies and filters the air to a level of 99.99%, returning safe clean air back into the office.