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Latex-minimal environment

Our office was one of the first latex-minimal dental offices to be built in the United States. When we moved into this location in 1994, it was decided before planning it’s design that latex products would not be knowingly introduced into our new office.

Latex-free office environments, in a non-hospital environment, are difficult if not impossible to maintain. As long as we have no control over clothing of patients, delivery people, and other service providers, and items they may be carrying, we cannot make claims of “latex-free”.

However, there are other ways to reduce potential exposure to latex in our environment; from non-latex “elastics for orthodontics, to silicon rubber stoppers in our anesthetics, acrylic erasers, and non-latex adhesives. We have been able to maintain this environment for over a decade. Those patients who are latex sensitive have given us an “A” report card as they have not had symptoms develop as a reaction to any latent latex in the immediate environment.

Dr. Babiec has published and lectured to various state meetings about this issue. It’s one more way that we really care about our patients and each other.

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