 Everybody here with dental L let me talk to you guys about waterline maintenance and suction line maintenance, so this is a very common question from a lot of dental hygienists who. you're probably doing it, but you don't know if you're doing it correctly, and then if you've been audited and you have to submit your practice profile. There is a spot in there, where you have to write that down and you have to include as much information as possible, so let me kind of go over that a little bit. So you need to make sure to write exactly what you're doing for waterline and suction line maintenance, meaning how do you purge the lines. How often do you do it, is it after every patient, is it morning, is it afternoon, is it at the beginning of the day, is it at the end of the day you get the idea. And you have to say how long you are purging the lines for is it for 10 seconds or is it for three minutes and how do you do it, do you. attach the air water syringe tips do you attach your ultrasonic tips or do you do it without all of that, so you have to know how to do that. But then you also have to have to make note of do you use city water or a bottle a bottle system for your water. What type of water, do you use if it's city water well, then that's your answer, but if it's bottled water or i'm sorry a bottle system, do you use tap water, do you use distilled water, do you use filtered water. All of these things, you have to mention, are you like spinning yet I know it's very overwhelming but that's why i'm here to help you, but that's not all. Then you have to mention, how do you disinfect the water lines what exactly do you use so I suggest going through your office right now. And taking a picture of everything you use to disinfect the water lines, how do you shock the water lines, and do you test the water line so take a picture. Of all of those components, so then, for your practice profile, you can write that down exactly what the bottle says. The name, how much do you actually use what are the manufacturer's directions even take a picture of what it says on the back of the bottle or the system. That you're using it just kind of makes it easier, they also want to know where do you order it from do you order it from Amazon, I hope not you're going to get in trouble. Or what dental company, do you order from they want to know that do you shock the system, so in most cases, using a enzyme disinfecting cleaner isn't enough, we need to shock the system. As an example i'm a mobile dental hygienist, so I typically shock my system either once a week or once a month, it depends on how many patients i'm seeing. And how many times I did actually use my compressor unit because I don't use it for every single patient. But shock the system just really helps to sterilize if you will the water lines imagine all of the saliva tartar bacteria built up in there. it's kind of like just using soap and water or sometimes you need a little bit more don't you imagine cleaning your bathrooms. Are you just going to use soap and water probably not we want to get right in there and do a little bit more. The water lines at a dental office or for a mobile dental hygienist is no different, so they want to know exactly how you do it, what do you use how often do you do it. Who is doing it and how much of that solution, do you use, do you mix it with water, yes or no. Do you run it through the lines and then wait 20 minutes, or do you just run it through the lines and then immediately run water through it. They want they want you to be very specific, but then the last part is do you do any culture testing, do you actually test. The water that's coming out of the water lines to see if there's any bacteria left or is it at an unhealthy level. If it was at the unhealthy level, then you're disinfecting cleaner and the shock system isn't working that's not good you don't want the patients. You don't want to be sucking up you know the patient saliva bacteria you don't want to be spraying water in the mouth and have it not be healthy right. We have protocols, we have systems in place we're in healthcare to make sure things are absolutely 110% perfect. kind of like when we sterilize we don't just sterilize we have to test the sterilizer multiple times, not just once we have many tests. That we put inside our sterilizer many indicators, as you all know, I talked about sterilizing in another video don't you worry. But that's what you guys have to have to write down for the water line maintenance, so I hope that helps. If you guys need need more help, I am very, very happy to help I do offer more help inside the online portfolio workshop. That is included inside that course, but then I do have a entirely separate course where I just talk about. How you need to write your practice profile is especially focusing on the short answer questions, such as waterline and suction line maintenance which we just talked about, but I go through it in greater detail. And I give you examples of exactly what you should be writing not copy and paste obviously. But I give you my actual practice profile, so you can see what you should have in there to give you an idea, I also talk about sterilization and I. write down exactly what I have so you can see what they want to see all of the short answers I go through everything, so I will leave those courses down below for you, if you need help. 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