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An Evaluation of Two Systems for the Management of the Microbiological Quality of Water in Dental Unit Waterlines: Hygowater^®^ and IGN Calbénium^®^ by Damien Offner; Anne-Marie Musset is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Water in dental unit waterlines (DUWL) represents a risk for vulnerable patients if its microbiological quality is not controlled. The aim of this prospective study was to evaluate two systems for its management under real conditions: Hygowater^®^ and IGN Calbenium^®^. Samples of the output water of DUWL were obtained for 5 previously contaminated units connected to Hygowater^®^, and 5 non-contaminated units connected to IGN Calbenium^®^, which was already effective for more than 1 year, as a control group. Samples were regularly collected up to 6 months after the implementation of Hygowater^®^, and were then cultured and analyzed. With IGN Calbenium^®^, except for a technical problem and a sample result in one unit at 6 months (Heterotrophic Plate Count (HPC) at 37 °C of 66 colony forming units (cfu)/mL), the results showed an absence of contamination. Hygowater^®^ took a couple of weeks to be effective on initially contaminated DUWL (over 200 cfu/mL for all the units), then showed its efficacy for 2 months (HPC at 37 °C with a mean of 40.2 ufc/mL, and HPC at 22 °C with a mean of 0.2 ufc/mL). At 6 months, results were satisfactory for HPC at 22 °C (mean of 12 ufc/mL), but HPC at 3

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Author
Damien Offner; Anne-Marie Musset
Publisher
MDPI AG
Published
2021
Language
EN
Field
Medicine (Health Sciences)