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Dental and medical instruments and appliances are chemically sterilized by immersion in or subjection to a formulation or composition comprising as active antimicrobial agents a combination or admixture of an iodophor such as the povidone-iodine complex or a quaternary ammonium compound such as cety

Dental and medical instruments and appliances are chemically sterilized by immersion in or subjection to a formulation or composition comprising as active antimicrobial agents a combination or admixture of an iodophor such as the povidone-iodine complex or a quaternary ammonium compound such as cetyl pyridinium chloride and a peroxide such as H2O2, the antimicrobial action of the iodine derived from the iodophor being enhanced or potentiated by oxygen released from the peroxide. The invention is applicable also to the chemical sterilization of surgical sites. Procedure for making and using the sterilizing formulation or composition is described.

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A method of enhanced chemical sterilization of existing and potential surgical sites resulting from the use or intended use of dental and surgical instruments and appliances on an area of the human body operated upon or to be operated thereon which comprises subjecting for a sufficient period of tim

A method of enhanced chemical sterilization of existing and potential surgical sites resulting from the use or intended use of dental and surgical instruments and appliances on an area of the human body operated upon or to be operated thereon which comprises subjecting for a sufficient period of time to effect sterilization the surgical sites to be sterilized to the action of a potentiated antimicrobial aqueous solution comprising an iodophor component as a source of iodine and a peroxide component as a source of active or nascent oxygen, the antimicrobial activity of the iodine of the iodophor component being antimicrobially potentiated by oxygen of the peroxide component when the two components are admixed to form the antimicrobial solution and the surgical sites subjected to sterilization therewith.