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The Real MaestroMD: Dr. Lorenzo
Lepore
Dr. Lorenzo Lepore, a practicing dentist and musician,
founded Encore Etc., Inc. in 2001 after he discovered that
musical wind instruments can harbor disease-causing bacteria
for up to five months. |
Dr.
Lorenzo Lepore, a practicing dentist, pioneered MaestroMD when
he realized that sharing unsterilized wind instruments could
be putting the health of millions of children at risk. |
| A Lurking
Health Danger |
| 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. |
| A Health
Crisis in Florida |
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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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Dr. Lepore Launches Encore’s
MaestroMD |
| 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 System. |
| The Only Wind Instrument
Sterilization System Available Today |
 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. |
| Protect Yourself, Protect Your Children
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| Why take a chance?
If you don’t know the history of your wind instrument,
including whether or not it was human-tested in the factory,
you may be at risk of being exposed to dangerous pathogens.
MaestroMD provides the peace of mind only 100% sterilization
can offer. |
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