Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers

Shankargouda Patil; Ibtisam Hussain Moafa; Shilpa Bhandi; Mohammed Abdurabu Jafer; Samar Saeed Khan; Shahrukh Khan; William B. Carroll; Kamran Habib Awan

doi:10.1016/j.disamonth.2020.101056

Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers

Shankargouda Patil, Ibtisam Hussain Moafa, Shilpa Bhandi, Mohammed Abdurabu Jafer, Samar Saeed Khan, Shahrukh Khan, William B. Carroll, Kamran Habib Awan^*

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Abstract

As a pathogen spread primarily by the respiratory route COVID-19 infection not only poses significant risks to health care workers, but to dentists and dental health care workers, owing to the potential prolonged exposure and proximity to patients. This holds true for non-dentist health care workers who often in the setting of emergency departments and urgent care centers are tasked with addressing oral symptoms including abscesses, damaged teeth, jaw injuries and other dental urgencies. Infection control practice guidelines were evaluated for COVID-19 infection prevention in a dental setting. In this brief review, protective measures to reduce the risk of COVID-19 infection for dentists and non-dentist health care providers will be introduced. This includes patient eval uation, personal and patient protective equipment use, sterilization and disinfection protocols. (c) 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Article number	101056
Number of pages	5
Journal	Dm Disease-A-Month
Volume	66
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disamonth.2020.101056
Publication status	Published - Oct 2020

Keywords

COVID-19
SARS-COV-2
Dental
Infection control
Clinical decision making
Risk factor

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