Sterilisation
A sterile and hygienic workmethod while placing a piercing or changing jewellery is imperative to avoid infections. We would like to explain how we work.
All instruments and the jewellery used for placing piercings is sterilised in the following manner:
After each use and before the first use instruments are placed in a disinfection tray for twenty minutes to remove the biggest part of any residue and lower the bacteria count with 99%.
Instrumments are rinced and placed in an ultrasonic cleaner. In here they are bombarded during 60 minutes with imploding airbubbles that ensure torough cleaning up to a molecular level.
The instruments are rinced and layed out to dry.
When they are completely dry they are wrapped in sterilisation foil.
After rapping the instruments are placed in the vacuumautoclave to sterilise them at 134°C at three times the airpressure. The use of a vacuum is needed because the equipment is wrapped.
After sterilising all equipment is stored in closed cabinets and drawers till use. Equipment that isn't used within a month is resterilised.
To avoid cross-contamination with disposable material, gauzes, corcks, rubber bands, cottontips and toothpicks are sterilised in bulk and set-up is done on a sterile field. Needles are bought sterilised and used only ones!Set-up
When coming in for a piercing, we first wash our hands.
After which we take the equipment out of its wrapping and put it on a sterile field.
After the piercing all equipment is put back in the disinfection tray to be resterilised.Needles are disposed of in a sharpscontainer.