Dr Michael V Martin
Infection Control - The
Challenge of New Diseases
Dr Michael V Martin is a lecturer in Oral
Microbiology at the University of Sheffield. He is also Consultant
Microbiologist at Liverpool University and Fellow of the Royal
College of Pathologists. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed
articles and authored nine books on clinical oral microbiology. He has received numerous awards and most
recently was honoured by Her Majesty the Queen with the award of
membership of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for "his
services to dentistry and dental research".
Infection Control - The
Challenge of New Diseases
The last two decades have been unprecedented in
that a large number of new diseases have been described. In the
1980s HIV was first described and changed the practice of dentistry
with barrier protection, such as gloves for every patient. When more
information was available it was found unlikely that HIV was
transmitted by normal dental procedures. Since this time we have had
the challenge of Hepatitis C (the "silent" disease), SARS and now
Prions and Crutzfeldt-Jakob disease. With the discovery of these new
diseases do we need to change our infection control procedures? The
purpose of this presentation will be to review what dentists do and
what they need to do to keep themselves, their staff and their
patients safe from the newly discovered diseases.
This programme is kindly
supported by SCICAN.
