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Dr. Lorenzo Lepore, a practicing dentist, pioneered MaestroMD when he realized that
sharing unsterilized wind instruments could be putting the health of millions of
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Dr. Lepore’s interest in musical wind instrument safety arose out of a question
posed to him by a music teacher: is it safe to pass to another musician a wind instrument
used by an infected student? In researching the answer, Dr. Lepore discovered that
no method was available to safely and effectively sterilize wind instruments. |
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As a dentist, Dr. Lepore was well aware of a parallel situation that had occurred
in Florida in the early 1990s. After several cases of infected patients were traced
back to unsterilized handpieces in a dental office, the Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) mandated a strict sterilization policy and initiated a new health care protocol
for the dental industry. Up until that point, however, no one had given any thought
to wearing gloves and medical masks or using dental handpieces on multiple patients
without sterilizing them between uses.
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Concerned for young and older musicians alike, Dr. Lepore set about finding a solution
that would completely eradicate pathogens without damaging delicate, and valuable,
wind instruments. After eight years of research and testing, he was approved for
the application of a commonly used and proven medical sterilization process to kill
harmful pathogens in wind instruments. This is the MaestroMD Wind Instrument Sterilization
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 MaestroMD, the only Wind Instrument
Sterilization System available today, kills 100% of bacteria, viruses and fungi
inside your instrument’s mouthpiece, body and case. In 2004 the FDA reviewed
the MaestroMD process
and concurred that it “addresses a valid public health issue” and that
“sterilizing items contaminated with body fluids between users is appropriate.”
In effect, musical wind instruments should be treated in the same way medical instruments
are.
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