Your safety, our standard
Japanese medical standards, European sterilization standards.
Choosing a clinic in another country, it is natural to wonder about hygiene. Here is exactly how we protect you at RODIN DENTAL OFFICE — the equipment we use, the instrument protocols we follow, and the standards we hold ourselves to.
It is one of the first things international patients ask, and it is a fair question — you cannot see what happens behind the scenes. So we would rather show you.
RODIN runs to Japanese medical-facility standards and adds a European sterilization standard on top. Below is how instruments, surfaces and water are handled — and the one distinction that matters most: how everyday care and surgery are protected differently.
Our instruments are sterilized in a Class B prevacuum autoclave, the highest of the cycle classes defined by the European standard EN 13060. A prevacuum cycle removes air before sterilization begins, so pressurized steam can reach inside hollow instruments — such as handpieces — and into porous materials.
The right way to protect you is not the same for a check-up as it is for surgery. We use two clearly separated protocols.
Everyday care
Check-ups · cleanings · fillings
Gloves, masks, aprons, suction tips and similar basics are single-use. A new set is opened for each patient and discarded afterwards — so nothing that touches one patient is ever carried to the next. This removes the everyday routes of cross-contamination at the source.
Surgery
Implant placement · All-on-4 · extractions
Surgery is different. Here we deliberately do not use simple disposable instruments. Instead we use precision-engineered stainless-steel surgical instruments, fully sterilized in the Class B autoclave for every case. Purpose-built surgical instruments give the accuracy that implant and surgical work demands, and full sterilization gives the safety — so you get both at once, never one at the expense of the other.
Every reusable instrument passes through a three-stage routine — washing, disinfection, then sterilization in the Class B autoclave — before it can be used again.
Sterilized instruments are stored in individual sealed pouches and opened only immediately before use, in front of you — so you can see the seal is intact.
The chair, operating light handles and controls, and other touch surfaces are disinfected between every patient.
Staff follow hand-hygiene and personal-protective-equipment (gloves, masks, eyewear, aprons) routines throughout the day, changing single-use items per patient.
Hygiene is not only about instruments. The water used during your treatment is filtered, and the dental-unit water lines that carry it to the chair are managed as part of the same routine — so the water that reaches you is kept clean.
We combine the medical standards expected of a Japanese clinic with a European sterilization standard, and we check our sterilizer periodically with biological indicators (spore tests) that confirm the cycle can kill even highly resistant micro-organisms.
Our aim is simple and absolute in intent: that nothing passes from one patient to the next. It is the standard we would want for our own families — and the one we extend to every patient who travels to us.
Our instrument sterilization uses a Class B autoclave — the highest of the cycle classes defined by the European standard EN 13060. A Class B prevacuum cycle removes air before sterilization, so steam reaches inside hollow instruments (such as handpieces) and porous materials that the Class N and Class S cycles common in general practice cannot reliably penetrate.
Single-use basics — gloves, masks, aprons, suction tips and similar items — are never reused; a new set is opened for each patient. Reusable instruments are cleaned, disinfected and then sterilized in the Class B autoclave between every patient, sealed in individual pouches and opened only at the chairside in front of you.
No. For surgery — implant placement, All-on-4, and extractions — we deliberately do not use simple disposable instruments. Surgery is performed with precision-engineered stainless-steel surgical instruments that are fully sterilized in the Class B autoclave for each case. This combines safety with the accuracy that surgery requires. Single-use basics are used for everyday care (check-ups, cleanings, fillings).
Treatment water is filtered, and the chair water lines are managed to keep the water used during your treatment clean. This is part of the same infection-control routine that covers instruments and surfaces.
Alongside routine cycle monitoring, sterilizer performance is checked periodically with biological indicators (spore tests), which confirm that the cycle is capable of killing highly resistant micro-organisms. Surfaces that are touched during treatment — the chair, light handles and controls — are disinfected between patients.
Have a question about hygiene, or ready to plan your treatment? Our English-speaking team is here — start with a free online consultation.
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