Figure 6.

Recent and potential applications of plasma disinfection technology in the field of agriculture, medicine, dentistry, and environment. In the agricultural field, plasma technology could be applied to the disinfection of foods and packaging materials as well as agricultural sources such as seeds, fertilizers, waters and soils. In the medical field, plasma is useful for disinfection/sterilization of medical devices, as well as the degradation of toxins and other pathological contaminants. Potential applications of this technology also includes skin antisepsis as well as the treatment of pathogen-based skin diseases. In dentistry, plasma treatment has been used for microbicidal decontamination, including root canal disinfection and tooth disinfection. Plasma technology may also be utilized in the environmental field, including cleaning of wastewater as well as the treatment of exhaust gases.