Sterilisation only works on clean instruments — and hand scrubbing hinged, serrated, contaminated sharps is the slowest, riskiest step in the reprocessing room. A benchtop ultrasonic replaces the brush with ten unattended minutes.
Instruments into the transport container as used — no pre-scrubbing at the chair, no drying of soils onto the steel.
Basket in, lid on, 5–10 minutes at Low–Med power in instrument-grade detergent. Cavitation clears box joints, serrations and lumens the brush never enters — with no hands on contaminated sharps.
Thorough rinse to remove detergent and freed soil; final rinse quality per your practice protocol.
Dry, inspect under light — visibly clean instruments, every time, documented as a repeatable step rather than an operator effort.
Into the autoclave. Cleaning is the step that makes sterilisation effective; ultrasonics is how the cleaning step becomes consistent.
The single biggest WHS win in the steri room: staff stop scrubbing contaminated sharps by hand. The basket goes from transport container to tank untouched.
A set cycle at set chemistry is a documented process — not a judgement call that varies with how busy the afternoon got.
No brush wear on cutting edges, no abrasion on plated surfaces — cavitation cleans without contact, and instruments stay serviceable longer.
Single-chair and small practice: a full kit tray in one cycle, footprint of a kettle.
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Multi-chair practices and day clinics: 250 × 200 mm basket takes full cassettes and the afternoon's backlog.
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| Chemistry | Brulin 815 GD or Sonidet instrument detergent [Sonidet page to add] — 5 L / 20 L practice packs. Never caustics or acids in these machines |
| Temperature | 40–45 °C (enzymatic ranges are temperature-sensitive — follow the label) |
| Power | Low–Medium |
| Time | 5–10 minutes |
| Then | Rinse · dry · inspect · sterilise |
Starting points only — part condition, chemistry and load set the final card. We help you dial it in.
Send us a tray of your worst — we clean it, photograph it and send back the result with the machine and cycle that did it.