The dental sterilization area got backed up today; how should appointments be adjusted without compromising safety?

We had several crown preps in a row this morning at the dental clinic, and the sterilization area turnover was slow, so we almost ran out of instruments for the hygiene room. A colleague wanted to borrow another tray to get by, but I insisted on checking the autoclave cycle log and cassette count first, refusing to use instruments that hadn't completed the process. To handle this, I pushed back…