Review Article

Sterilisation in Dentistry: A Review of the Literature

Table 1

A complete overview of the search methodology, illustrating the keywords used, the Boolean operators adopted, and the number of records obtained for each online database.

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“Sterilisation instruments” AND “dental autoclave”1340117
“Sterilisation instrument” AND “precleaning”001
“Sterilisation instruments” AND “instruments disinfectants”127001
“Dental autoclave” AND “precleaning”100
“Dental autoclave” AND “instruments disinfectants”3200
“Precleaning” AND “instruments disinfectants”211
“Sterilisation instruments”797914522
“Precleaning”6238230500
“Instruments disinfectants”45302835600
“Dental autoclave”297216300
Total number of records1430742783042