1. PREFACE

2. CONTAMINATION AND INFECTION, SOURCES AND TRANSMISSIONROUTES 
    2.1 Source
    2.2 Transmissionroutes
    2.3 The amenable customer
    2.4 Important micro-organisms

3. THE MOST IMPORTANT PREVENTIVE MEASURES 
    3.1 Universal or standard precautions  
    3.2 Cleaning, disinfecting and sterilisation 

4. HANDHYGIENE
    4.1 General precautions 
    4.2 Washing and disinfecting hands: description of the topic 
    4.3 Washing and disinfecting hands: principals and methods 
    4.4 Gloves
    4.5 Practical recommendations 

5. DRESSCODE WHILE WORKING
       
6. THE EQUIPMENT
    6.1 Unit
    6.2 Furniture 
    6.3 Computer

7. CLEANING OF WORKPOSTS AND ROOMS 
    7.1 Cleaning of the treating-area 
    7.2 Cleaning of other working areas
    7.3 Cleaning of other rooms 

8. INSTRUMENTAL CARE 
    8.1 Cleaning of instruments 
    8.2 Disinfecting of instruments
    8.3 Sterilisation of instruments

9. ORGANISATION OF WORK
    9.1 Working areas 
    9.2 Acts 

10. ENCLOSURES
    10.1 Characteristics of the most important disinfectants  
    10.2 Most important disinfecting techniques 
    10.3 Danger of transmission of viral hepatitis and AIDS 
    10.4 Precautions in the practice 
    10.5 Procedures after a potential infecting incident
    10.6 Sterilisation-monitoring