SECTION ONE – HOME STERILIZATION Why is sterilization important?
The world is full of all sorts of dangerous microbes (such as bacteria and viruses), as well as any amount of “dirt” that can contaminate a procedure. These things can do anything from the minor (lengthening healing, increasing scarring, damaging the tissue, etc.) to more serious problems (giving you a debilitating incurable disease like Hepatitis or AIDS, to giving you a serious and life-threatening infection, to causing the procedure to fail). It is essential that the procedure be as free of these problems as possible, and proper care for sterilization is an essential part of a responsible procedure.