CDC Training Courses for Infection Prevention and Control in Dental Settings

CDC provides training materials and other resources to increase the knowledge, skills, and ability of dental health care personnel to adhere to CDC guidelines and recommendations, and resources related to infection prevention and control in dental healthcare settings.

Foundations: Building the Safest Dental Visit
Foundations: Building the Safest Dental Visit

A web-based, interactive, self-paced training designed to help increase adherence with established infection prevention and control practices among dental health care personnel. This course provides Continuing Education credit through an agreement with the Organization for Safety, Asepsis, and Prevention.


Image: The cycle of infection transmission from patient to patient, patient to dentist, and dentist to patient.

Foundations Media training videos can be used to educate and train dental health care personnel, infection prevention coordinators, educators, consultants, and the general public about safe dental visits.

Basic Expectations for Safe Care Training Modules
Hand hygiene, sharps safety, personal protective equipment, safe injection practices, evaluation, environmental safety are some of the concepts presented in this training series

The Basic Expectations for Safe Care training modules are instructional resources with slide sets and speaker notes that can be used to educate and train infection prevention coordinators, educators, consultants, and other dental health care personnel in a classroom format. The materials are free for anyone to access and use. No registration is required.