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Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers
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...
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Elsevier Inc.
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32741545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.disamonth.2020.101056 |
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author | Patil, Shankargouda Moafa, Ibtisam Hussain Bhandi, Shilpa Jafer, Mohammed Abdurabu Khan, Samar Saeed Khan, Shahrukh Carroll, William B. Awan, Kamran Habib |
author_facet | Patil, Shankargouda Moafa, Ibtisam Hussain Bhandi, Shilpa Jafer, Mohammed Abdurabu Khan, Samar Saeed Khan, Shahrukh Carroll, William B. Awan, Kamran Habib |
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description | 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 evaluation, personal and patient protective equipment use, sterilization and disinfection protocols. |
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spelling | pubmed-73925922020-07-31 Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers Patil, Shankargouda Moafa, Ibtisam Hussain Bhandi, Shilpa Jafer, Mohammed Abdurabu Khan, Samar Saeed Khan, Shahrukh Carroll, William B. Awan, Kamran Habib Dis Mon Article 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 evaluation, personal and patient protective equipment use, sterilization and disinfection protocols. Elsevier Inc. 2020-09 2020-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC7392592/ /pubmed/32741545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.disamonth.2020.101056 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Patil, Shankargouda Moafa, Ibtisam Hussain Bhandi, Shilpa Jafer, Mohammed Abdurabu Khan, Samar Saeed Khan, Shahrukh Carroll, William B. Awan, Kamran Habib Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers |
title | Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers |
title_full | Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers |
title_fullStr | Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers |
title_full_unstemmed | Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers |
title_short | Dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers |
title_sort | dental care and personal protective measures for dentists and non-dental health care workers |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7392592/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32741545 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.disamonth.2020.101056 |
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