COVID-19 Protocols

For Your Protection And Safety

What we do for COVID-19 to keep you safe and healthy 11/01/2022
A Downtown Dental Group

Your safety, your protection, and your health are our primary concerns, even more so now. We understand and deeply respect that you may be worried, so I want to assure you that our office has even further heightened our already rigid sterilization safeguards, office cleaning standards, and personal protective equipment to keep you safe.

Our standards follow what the ADA (American Dental Association) and CDC (Center for Disease Control) and the State of Hawaii recommend. These are things we take extremely seriously. This is a review of what we do for your benefit.

Here are the extra precautions we’re taking to ensure your safety:

• The entire staff has received the COVID-19 vaccine and omicron boosters.
• Wearing additional appropriate protective equipment, similar to hospital-grade.
• OSHA-compliant heat/steam sterilization of all instruments.
• High-quality N95 masks and face shields.
• High-quality gloves medical-grade gloves, changed multiple times for each patient.
• Plexiglass barriers in the reception room and conference room.
• Detailed screening questions at the office as needed.
• High-quality HEPA air quality filters in the reception area and all the treatment rooms. (Our reception room has the same high-quality HEPA air filters that were actually used in the hospitals in Wuhan, China.)
• We use Plasma Air technology which deactivates airborne viruses – cleaning the air you breathe. Plasma bipolar ionization has proven to be effective against several viruses: H1N1 influenza, H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu), and coronavirus. This technology deactivates the viruses, rendering them harmless, so they can no longer spread or cause infection.
• Disinfection of the work area between all procedures.
• Disinfection of all common areas, including restrooms, counters, chairs, and door handles with the most effective but safe non-toxic product, (hypochlorous acid). It is 50 times more effective than Clorox but safe enough to wash baby bottles.
• Fogging the entire office with a high-quality disinfectant at the end of each day. Foggers produce micro-droplets that float in the air for several minutes and can reach all the most inaccessible parts of a room where regular cleaning or spraying can’t reach.
• Ultra-high-volume suction devices in hygiene, and in all treatment rooms to remove aerosol spray. Hand scaling as much as possible.

Health is so important now due to the pandemic. As your dentist, it is our responsibility to keep you as healthy as possible. Oral health is a gateway to your overall health, and your health and safety are our top priorities.

We love what we do and the people we help, and we are always here to help you and keep you safe.

Dr. David Miyasaki DMD
Dr. Wilfred Miyasaki DMD

P.S. Give us a call now at 808-797-3680 to schedule your oral health check-up. Don’t wait till an emergency happens that may put your health at risk.