Municipal water quality is highly variable depending on your location. This chemical variability can undermine the effectiveness of microbial treatment products like straws and tablets and potentially reduce the life of your instruments.
Dental unit waterline (DUWL) management is vital in dentistry to control biofilm buildup, minimize the risk of waterborne infections, and maintain the quality of the dental water supply to ensure safe and effective dental treatment for patients.
Protect the health and safety of patients and dental staff.
Isolation and aerosol control are essential in dentistry to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, reduce the risk of cross-contamination, and protect the health and safety of patients and dental staff. These measures can help minimize the production and dispersion of aerosols during dental procedures, reducing the risk of transmission of airborne pathogens.
Featuring top-tier technology, the NXT Hg5 represents the gold standard in amalgam separation for your office. Our signature separator—the NXT Hg5—comes in several sizes to fit the needs of your practice.
Easy and safe disposal for amalgam, lead, and biohazardous waste.
Our DOT and EPA-approved disposal systems help dental practices reduce their environmental impact, prevent the spread of infectious diseases, and comply with regulatory requirements.
Solmetex provides dental practices with simple, safe, and effective solutions for all water leaving the chair. Our products keep vacuum lines clean, remove harmful contaminants from entering the water supply, and enable safe disposal of hazardous waste.
Sterisil ensures water for non-surgical procedures is clean and safe by offering effective, and convenient water purification, treatment, and testing solutions.
For over 25 years, Solmetex has been an innovator in dental water safety.
Today, dentists count on us to deliver a reliable system of solutions to manage the water in, through, and out of the their practice while enabling compliance within an ever-changing regulatory environment.
Try the DryShield isolation system free for 30 days!
The DryShield Free Trial Kit includes the DryShield Isolation System along with an assorted sample pack of both our Autoclavable and Single-Use Mouthpieces.
We have extensive experience in water chemistry, chemical separation science, process engineering, high performance manufacturing, as well as federal, state and local regulations governing water and hazardous wastes.
Solmetex provides DSO’s with the only comprehensive lineup of end-to-end dental water solutions, designed to enhance practice performance. This provides DSO’s an unmatched level of assurance for water safety, quality, and compliance.
Fun Water Facts!July 15, 2017
1. Less than 1% of the water supply on earth can be used as drinking water.
2. By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over 1 percent of its total water amount.
3. About 25,700 litres (6,800 gallons) of water is required to grow a day's food for a family of four.
4. Groundwater can take a human lifetime just to traverse ONE mile.
5. A person can live about a month without food, but only about a week without water. If a human does not absorb enough water dehydration is the result.
6. Most of the earth's surface water is permanently frozen or salty.
7. If all the world's water were fit into a gallon jug, the fresh water available for us to use would equal only about one tablespoon
8. When water contains a lot of calcium and magnesium, it is called hard water. Hard water is not suited for all purposes water is normally used for.
9. An acre of corn will give off 15,000 litres (4,000 gallons) of water per day in evaporation.
10. A small drip from a faucet can waste as much as 75 litres of water a day.
11. Of all the water on earth, only 2.5% is fresh water. Fresh water is either groundwater (0,5%), or readily accessible water in lakes, streams, rivers, etc. (0,01%).
12. As oceans are very wide and there are multiple to be found on earth, oceans store most of the earth's water. This is apparently 97% of the total amount of water on earth, 2% of which is frozen.
13. Human bones are 25% water.
14. Most of the world's people must walk at least 3 hours to fetch water.
15. Today, at least 400 million people live in regions with severe water shortages.
16. It takes 450 litres (120 gallons) of water to produce one egg.
17. Bottled water can be up to 1000 times more expensive than tap water and it may not be as safe.
Related Links:
Drinking Water Contaminants - Standards and Regulations / US EPA Safe Drinking Water Act / US EPA EPA Dental Effluent Guidelines for the Dental Office Category