Ruth Carrico to deliver keynote speech

Ruth will speak on Friday, June 23, and will address ‘The Safest Dental Visit: Preparing for the future by reimaging infection control.”

The OSAP conference is the premier infection control education and networking event in the dental industry. Nationally and internationally known experts discuss current and emerging issues relating to infection prevention and safety in oral healthcare settings and provide attendees with essential resources, valuable tools and new approaches for better protecting patients and staff.

In her keynote address, Ruth Carrico will focus on the future and how dental care providers must change, collaborate, find new partners and identify new ways of doing things in order to keep the promise of safe patient care, while continuing to improve performance and the patient experience. The commitment to a safe dental visit is the foundation for everything dental professionals do, from care of the dental environment, to disinfection and sterilisation of equipment and instruments and assuring that all members of the dental care team have received immunisation against vaccine-preventable diseases. Ruth will discuss how the changing ecology of human pathogens, increasing diversity of our workforce, emerging infections that represent transmission risks in all healthcare settings and pressure to provide quality care at a lower cost may affect this patient promise.