COVID-19 and paediatric dentistry- traversing the challenges. A narrative review

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major global public health emergency with a focus on preventing the spread of this virus for controlling this crisis. A dental setting is at a high risk of cross infection amid patients and dental practitioner's owing to the spread of inf...

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Autor principal: Shah, Saleha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7441885/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32864126
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2020.08.007
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Sumario:The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has become a major global public health emergency with a focus on preventing the spread of this virus for controlling this crisis. A dental setting is at a high risk of cross infection amid patients and dental practitioner's owing to the spread of infection via droplets suspended in the air by infected symptomatic or asymptomatic subjects. This review article informs about measures which reduce facility risk, manage symptomatic patients and protect personal health care and management with reference to paediatric dentistry.

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