Business rooted in need for greater hygiene

Lifestyle – Hazel Hendy and Paul Moore run a business supplying sanitisation products to dentists. Covid-19 has made them realise that the stringent hygiene standards practised by dentists should be replicated elsewhere, especially in the hair and beauty industry as clients become more concerned about sanitation protocols.  They tell DEARBHLA GERAGHTY why it’s so important.

An early diagnosis of Covid-19, and the lengthy lockdown that began last March, inspired Hazel Hendy and her husband, Paul Moore, to rethink the focus of their dental hygiene business and examine the demands being placed on other areas of society by increasingly-vigilant consumers.

Hazel caught Covid-19 while on her way back from Sydney in March. The former owner of Bold Art Gallery in Galway City had been in the Australian city, promoting dental hygiene products that she and Paul had developed years earlier.

The shock diagnosis stopped Hazel in her tracks, and then the subsequent lockdown changed how the couple could do business. With valuable conferences cancelled and world travel suspended, they were forced to rethink.

Nearly 10 years earlier they had applied what they knew – Paul has 40 years’ experience working as a dentist – to develop and patent four innovative solutions designed to prevent cross-infection and improve organisation and efficiency in dental settings.

Best practice requires that anything that’s contaminated with blood products or skin, or even that has been in contact with another person, should be sterilised – not just disinfected – between patients. While disinfection destroys many pathogens and micro-organisms, sterilisation goes further and wipes out all micro-organisms, bacteria, fungi, and viruses – it does this via a machine known as an autoclave.

“Each re-usable item is sealed in an autoclave pouch for individual use, sterilised in an autoclave machine at 134 degrees Celsius, and stored and ready for the next person,” explains Paul of the process.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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