One hundred samples of Bacteriological swabs were obtained of medical
team clothes, treatment and surgery tools, and patient covers and napkins,
from treatment and surgery rooms in the hospital of maxillo-facial surgery
at the Faculty of Dentistry
- Damascus university, before utilization for
checking the sterilization, and after utilization for detecting staphylococci
and determining its species that spread in the course of different dental
treatments and surgical procedures.
In this study, sterility for all studied samples was shown before utilization,
but after utilization we observed complete contamination in glove samples
with percentage (100%), while the samples of masks and tools and napkins
showed (50%) of contamination, and the samples of medical team clothes
and patient covers kept most of them (80%) of their sterility after
utilization.