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Deb Sklinder

Deb Sklinder is an oral surgery professional with 25+ years in the specialty, who served as her practice's infection control officer and guested on The Infection Control Exchange Podcast on building an infection control culture in oral surgery.

Sep 29, 2026

3:36
So anyway, I'll let you finish that talk.
3:39
Yeah.
3:39
So...
3:41
Often in oral surgery, we treat infection control like a checklist to pass an audit.
3:46
But compliance is what people do when someone is watching, and culture is what we do when no one is watching.
3:53
And so I knew when we set out to transform our practice, I realized it couldn't just be about rules.
3:59
It had to be a mindset shift.

5 MINS LATER

9:23
So to really change the mindset is a much difficult challenge.

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