Dentistry

Busy clinic schedules can lead to IPAC shortcuts. Learn how practical changes to workflows, scheduling and workspace organization can support safer daily practices.

Turn your IPAC manual into a practical resource with accessible instructions, role-specific training and regular coaching that support everyday patient safety.

Opening day is only the beginning. The first 90 days show whether an IPAC program works under real operating conditions and where the home needs to learn, adjust and build sustainable practices.

When we’re completing IPAC audits in dental practices, we rarely see staff intentionally ignoring best practices. More often, small gaps show up during busy, ordinary moments when people are simply…

There is an old philosophical riddle: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? In dental infection prevention…

Dental teams are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Between managing appointments, supporting patients, answering clinical and administrative questions, navigating regulatory requirements, and maintaining documentation standards, staff are…

Almost every dental practice says the same thing when we ask about policies: “Oh yes, we have those.” And sometimes they do. But often, once we start looking a little…

How to centralize your policies without losing what makes your practice unique In a busy dental practice, your team does not have time to search through binders, old emails, shared…

It might sound basic. It might even sound obvious. But in dental practices across Ontario, one of the most frequently misunderstood—and inconsistently implemented—concepts in infection prevention and control is this:…

In the past year, IPAC Consulting completed 195 dental audits across a wide range of dental practices. While each clinic was different, our consultants noticed something important: the same types…

Suddenly, the whole team is doing things almost the same way, and that ‘almost’ is precisely where risk builds. In a busy dental practice, most compliance issues do not start…

The goal is not to catch staff doing something wrong. The goal is to look at the workflow with fresh eyes and identify where small adjustments could make the right…

As an infection control consultant, I’ve spent a lot of time inside dental offices reviewing compliance with Public Health and Royal College (RCDSO) requirements. And there’s one issue that comes…

As an infection control consultant, I’ve walked into countless dental offices—some pristine, some struggling, and many somewhere in between. I’ve worked alongside teams preparing for Public Health inspections, responded to…

Most offices do not struggle because they do not care about compliance. They struggle because it can be difficult to step back and clearly see where the real risks are.”…