General and Particular Aspects of Infective Risk in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics - Part I

The infectious risk in the dental practice, including in the orthodontic practice, represents a real danger for both the medical team (orthodontic specialist, dental nurse and dental technician), but also for the patient. But, dental orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics is a specialty in the field of dentistry with a special content and a special instruments and, therefore, by conducting this study, even if it is only preliminary, we set out to highlight a succession of concepts, the objective being to familiarize the specialists in orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics with certain rules of theoretical and practical character, which aim to prevent and combat the infectious risk in orthodontic practice.