COVID-19 outbreak… journey of dental care workers: A systematic review

The conditions of health-care professionals including dental fraternity have been extremely affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dental care workers have suspended all routine dental activities with the fear of transmission of the virus from aerosol-generating dental procedures. They have also sto...

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Autores principales: Garg, Pooja, Kumar, Virendra, Verma, Umesh Pratap, Lal, Nand, Rastogi, Pavitra, Singhal, Rameshwari, Pathak, Anjani Kumar, Kaushal, Shalini, Pal, U. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10235734/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37273430
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/njms.njms_322_21
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Sumario:The conditions of health-care professionals including dental fraternity have been extremely affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dental care workers have suspended all routine dental activities with the fear of transmission of the virus from aerosol-generating dental procedures. They have also stood with medical care professionals as frontline warriors because of the exponentially overburdened of the COVID-19-positive patients worldwide. With the available literature, the aim of this article is to address the trajectories of the life of oral health workers during the outbreak of COVID-19 as well as to analyze what measures shall be taken to improve their overall physical, mental, social, and economic health and precautions while working in dental environment.

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