A protocol for the management of maxillofacial injuries in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

The oral & maxillofacial region and by that virtue surgery of the same is correlated to an increased risk of the transfer of the SARS CoV-2. In times of a pandemic it is imperative to institute a protocol based management of maxillofacial injuries based on currently available literature which is suggestive, simplistic, executable and amenable to modifications should the rapidly changing situation demand the same. The author, in the present study conducted a review of literature to undertake the task of forming a simplistic protocol which is readily applicable for the management of maxillofacial injuries which would not only provide the clinician guidance on what to do now but caution towards the future implications of his/her present decision.