COVID -19 and provisions for dental treatment: an overview

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Author Details : Tulika Rani Roy*, Sanjay Gupta, Amitandra Kumar Tripathi

Volume : 5, Issue : 3, Year : 2020

Article Page : 104-108

https://doi.org/10.18231/j.ijpi.2020.024

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Abstract

The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was declared as a pandemic on 11 March 2020. For a dental care professional there is high risk of cross infection due to specific characteristic of dental clinic setting as well as treatment modalities. There is urgent need of infection control protocols in dental clinics and hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. This requires the proper guidelines so that nosocomial COVID-19 spread should be prevented and the urgent dental care can be provided to the needful patients. This
article provides the guidelines for dental practitioners based on relevant guideline and experience. The aim of this article is to present an overview of the COVID-19 as well as overall guideline for dental treatment modality during and after the pandemic.

Keywords: COVID19, Pandemic, Infection control, Nosocomial.

How to cite : Roy T R, Gupta S, Tripathi A K, COVID -19 and provisions for dental treatment: an overview. IP Int J Periodontol Implantol 2020;5(3):104-108

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