The red dot on the box of needles indicates that the needles have been sterilized via gamma ray sterilization. The sticker starts off being yellow, and once it has been exposed to the gamma sterilization rays at a certain level of radiation, the sticker turns from yellow to red. This allows us to see at a glance that the needles in the box are safe and ready to be shipped to your clinic.

This is a critical step in our quality assurance procedures.

30% of practitioners don’t use guide tubes, so to prevent unused tubes from ending up in the trash, Acufast offers them separately from the needles. Ordering tubes separately is new for a lot of practitioners and the most common question we receive is: “How many pouches of tubes should I add to my order?”

In general, apply the following formula to see how many boxes of 100 tubes you need to order with your needles:

Formula
Calculate the average number of same size needles used on one patient then divide this number by 1000. Since tubes are sold in pouches of 100, divide this number by 100 to determine the number of pouches needed.

Example
20 needles/patient
1000 needles/box

1000 / 20 = 50 tubes per box of 1000 needles
50 tubes / 100 per box of tubes= .5 boxes of tubes for each box of 1,000 needles

Since Acufast doesn’t sell the tubes by the half box, a better way to think of this, would be 1 box for every 2,000 needles!