33 Michelle Talks Infection Control and the PPE Supply Chain with Rick Cohen!

This week on The Official OSAP Podcast Michelle Lee is Joined by Rick Cohen, the Managing Director of Benco, the nation's largest privately held dental distributor! Benco is an OSAP Super Sponsor and we appreciate all of their support. Michelle and Rick talk about infection control, and the supply chain.

Episode Highlights

• Manual Labor involved in face masks and disposable gowns
• Face masks and disposable gowns
• How and where PPE is made
• Reusable PPE
• Verifying PPE is certified

Quotes

“We compete tooth and nail, but at the end of the day this PPE crisis transcends that, the most important thing is that the dental professionals get the PPE they need"

“It was eye opening to me, I learned so much”

“I learned how so many products are made, I was surprised to learn how so many products involve manual labor”

“There are some products that cannot be made any other way, I don’t know of anyone making them with fully automated machines”

“There is a 5x demand for PPE at least”

“We are seeing prices 10x what we used to see”

“Develop a relationship with your local uniform supplier”

“They might be FDA registered, but they are not FDA registered for masks"

Links

Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfwflTBEpnE&feature=youtu.be

OSAP COVID-19 Resource Page: https://www.osap.org/page/COVID-19

OSAP’s homepage: https://www.osap.org/

Michelle Lee’s email: mlee@osap.org

The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:

http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/

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