Brian W Skellie – Sharing ideas
Among jewelry materials for initial piercing, glass deserves a closer look.
Understanding the hazards of handling and mixing chemicals is essential to safe use.
Body art procedures can benefit from sterile-barrier precautions, even if they are not as complicated as modern surgical procedures.
A surgeon who first advocated sterilized gloves. The first paper on sterile gloves in 1897: WZ von Manteuffel
Hand Hygiene in the New England Journal of Medicine Complete with interesting video Hand Hygiene Yves Longtin, M.D., Hugo Sax, M.D., Benedetta Allegranzi, M.D., Franck Schneider, and Didier Pittet, M.D. N Engl J Med 2011; 364:e24 March 31, 2011
A little about why I encourage people not to wear acrylic body jewelry.
https://www.fightgermsnow.com/
A useful collection of scientific studies on antimicrobial use in clinical and home settings.
For brevity, I suggest that you use all sterile disposable single use items, however if you are to reprocess used instruments: Classes Publications
I am teaching Biomaterials standards for body art at the BMXnet conference in Essen, Germany this month for World Standards Day, the celebration of the birth of ISO October 14th, 1946. ASTM International will participate in the U.S. celebration of World Standards Day, sponsored by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) on Oct. 13 in Washington, D.C. This year’s … Read more
Some of my colleagues have already learned of this from my biomaterials presentations at APP 2010 and BMXnet conferences. This reflects upon imported jewelry, and the situations that can arise when quality controls are not normalized. So far, most of the response I get from US distributors of medical titanium alloys is for ELI material they only use domestic melts.
I’ve been talking with fellow ASTM committee members about international sourcing for F136 Ti in particular. They all only use domestic melts for ELI material from Perryman, ATI and Fort Wayne Metals for example . Therefore when companies in China or elsewhere want to make jewelry from F136 they either have to buy from a US or EU source that has a distributor in their area, eg Taiwan, or buy from an local mill melt, that quite possibly won’t meet FDA, BSI, ISO etc.
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