Welcome to the OSAP website. The Organization for Safety and Asepsis Procedures is dedicated to promoting infection control and safety policies and practices supported by science and research to the global dental community.

This nonprofit association helps dental practitioners close the gap between policy and practice. How?

By providing relevant publications, innovative educational tools and programs, answers to infection control and safety  
questions, and much more.

OSAP also helps educators, researchers, companies and patients with their dental infection control and safety needs.

Thank you for visiting the OSAP website. We appreciate your support of OSAP, dentistry's resource for infection control and safety.   

 

Fireworks Injury Prevention They can be exciting, festive and fun–but fireworks can also be dangerous. Leaving fireworks displays to trained professionals can prevent injuries.   Image Credit: CDC

West Nile Virus Who Cares about Mosquito Bites? We Do. It can be scary to think about it (so often we don't), but a single mosquito bite can give you West Nile virus. And sure, many of the people who get bitten by an infected mosquito won't get sick. They are lucky.     Image Credit: CDC

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