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AquaSept™ is the Surest Sterilization Solution

Complies with New CDC Guidelines

The only sure way to meet new CDC Guidelines for use of sterile water during surgery procedures is to use removable sterilizable tubing and reservoirs. The AquaSept™ System assures the delivery of sterile water in an operating environment.

AquaSept™ provides such a system – either for new dental installations or to retrofit existing ones.

With traditional systems, the handpiece, syringe or scaler and the coolant system are microbially inseparable.

They function as a unit, become contaminated as a unit, and should be sterilized as a unit. It is just as important to sterilize the tubing as the dental handpiece or syringe.

AquaSept™ Features:
  • Flexible and easy installation, fits any space, portable
  • Mount on cart, wall or countertop
  • Retrofit units to any piece of dental equipment that can be hooked into the air line and bypass tubing
  • Doesn’t require internal plumbing, electrical or internal vacuum
  • Durable construction that lasts for years

With AquaSept™, the coolant system is part of the removable instrumentation. Sterilizing it along with the handpiece protects dental patients and workers.

Using the AquaSept™ System, the practitioner can select and deliver a separate source of coolant (sterile or non-sterile), whichever may be appropriate for the patient and/or procedure.

Sterile water may be the coolant of choice for certain
patients or invasive procedures. However, microbial separation of patients is still possible when using a fresh source of non-sterile distilled or even potable tap water because the AquaSept™ System allows the entire unit to be autoclaved between patients.

To be state-of-the art, your practice needs AquaSept™. Nothing else can be better.

Analogy: Restaurants provide a fresh straw with each soda, which is then thrown away. Think of the potential cross-contamination if every customer received the same straw! AquaSept™ sanitizes the “straw as well as the glass” between each patient.

Entirely autoclavable, the AquaSept™ System provides the only truly sterile dental unit coolant environment. AquaSept™ Syringe and Handpiece Systems are wall-mountable or available as a cart unit. A full line of parts and accessories give dentists the reliability and flexibility they need to make AquaSept™ a central part of their sterile water dental procedures.

AquaSept™ Systems are offered fiber-optic and ISO-C ready with tubing, quick connect and disconnect fittings, control heads, variable water flow valves, 4 and 8 ounce water bottles, mounts and assemblies.

AquaSept™ accessories include cart units with control boxes, trays, swing arms, sterilizing cassettes and CO2 kits. With AquaSept™, your dental unit water system can achieve zero CFU/mL.

Viruses are smaller than bacterial microbes and can pass through filtration. They are not identified in standard tests for potable water, and serious viruses such as HIV may be present in blood and saliva exposed to coolants.

Nothing Works as Well as AquaSept™ Sterilization

Autoclave sterilization with the AquaSept™ System outperforms anti-retraction valves, filtering, flushing and chemical germicides, all which reduce, but do not eliminate, microbial contamination.

System Options
  • Basic: One handpiece and syringe on simple, hand-carry stand. Upgradeable.
  • Intermediate: Two handpieces and syringe on same stand
  • Complete cart
  • Adapters to upgrade existing equipment
  • Bottles

Syringe Unit
  • Autoclavable dual
  • air/water syringe
  • Control head with quick
    connect air fitting
  • 4 ft silicone tubing
  • One 4 oz, one 8 oz
  • water bottle
Handpiece Unit
  • Compatible with most
  • delivery system
  • Supports Midwest 4-hole, 5-hole
  • fiber-optic, ISO-C fiber-optics
  • Control head with variable
  • water flow
  • Quick connect air fitting
  • 4 ft silicone tubing
  • One 4 oz, one 8 oz water bottle


Current Infection Controls in Dentistry


    Anti-Retraction Valves
  • Only work when the unit is shut off.
  • Because of passive retraction, contamination will occur while water is flowing.


  • Filtering

  • Patient-borne bacterial microbes accumulate on the patient side of the filter.
  • Viruses such as HIV are smaller than bacterial microbes and can pass through filtration.


  • Flushing
  • Daily flushing reduces, but cannot eliminate, microbial levels.
  • Flushing must be done before every patient visit.


    Chemical Germicides
  • May not remove all biofilm from tubing surfaces.
  • May also produce potentially hazardous disinfectant by-products.


    Autoclaving/Steam Sterilization
  • The only way to assure 100% sterilization of dental equipment.
  • Sterilize 134°C at 30 psi for 10 minutes