Dentistry for children during and post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak

BACKGROUND: During and post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, it is essential for safeguarding this viral infection control and prevention in pediatric dental practices. The role of parents and pediatric dentist and their dental team requires specific guidance to deal with dental problems of children in t...

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Autores principales: Kumar Mallineni, Sreekanth, Chandra Bhumireddy, Jaya, Nuvvula, Sivakumar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7676364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33235401
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105734
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description BACKGROUND: During and post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, it is essential for safeguarding this viral infection control and prevention in pediatric dental practices. The role of parents and pediatric dentist and their dental team requires specific guidance to deal with dental problems of children in the dental operatory during and post-pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 disease. PURPOSE: To report dentistry for children during and post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. CONCLUSIONS: The present review highlights the clinical features, possible modes of transmission of COVID-19 in dental operatory, preventive strategies, emergencies that pose a significant challenge, and treatment strategies for dealing with children and parents during and post COVID-19 pandemic. Absolute measures for children during their visit to dental operatory, quality control for pediatric dental clinics, and additional preventive measures associated with examinations and management of dental problems in children have been covered in this insight.
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spelling pubmed-76763642020-11-20 Dentistry for children during and post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak Kumar Mallineni, Sreekanth Chandra Bhumireddy, Jaya Nuvvula, Sivakumar Child Youth Serv Rev Article BACKGROUND: During and post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, it is essential for safeguarding this viral infection control and prevention in pediatric dental practices. The role of parents and pediatric dentist and their dental team requires specific guidance to deal with dental problems of children in the dental operatory during and post-pandemic outbreak of COVID-19 disease. PURPOSE: To report dentistry for children during and post COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. CONCLUSIONS: The present review highlights the clinical features, possible modes of transmission of COVID-19 in dental operatory, preventive strategies, emergencies that pose a significant challenge, and treatment strategies for dealing with children and parents during and post COVID-19 pandemic. Absolute measures for children during their visit to dental operatory, quality control for pediatric dental clinics, and additional preventive measures associated with examinations and management of dental problems in children have been covered in this insight. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-01 2020-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7676364/ /pubmed/33235401 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105734 Text en © 2020 Published by Elsevier Ltd. 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.
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