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Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study

With the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variants (BA.4 and BA.5), dentistry faces another seasonal challenge to preserve the biosafety of dental care and education. With the aim of protecting patients, students, teachers and healthcare professionals, this paper introduces a prospective...

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Autores principales: Thurzo, Andrej, Urbanová, Wanda, Waczulíková, Iveta, Kurilová, Veronika, Mriňáková, Bela, Kosnáčová, Helena, Gális, Branislav, Varga, Ivan, Matajs, Marek, Novák, Bohuslav
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9266032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805347
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137693
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author Thurzo, Andrej
Urbanová, Wanda
Waczulíková, Iveta
Kurilová, Veronika
Mriňáková, Bela
Kosnáčová, Helena
Gális, Branislav
Varga, Ivan
Matajs, Marek
Novák, Bohuslav
author_facet Thurzo, Andrej
Urbanová, Wanda
Waczulíková, Iveta
Kurilová, Veronika
Mriňáková, Bela
Kosnáčová, Helena
Gális, Branislav
Varga, Ivan
Matajs, Marek
Novák, Bohuslav
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description With the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variants (BA.4 and BA.5), dentistry faces another seasonal challenge to preserve the biosafety of dental care and education. With the aim of protecting patients, students, teachers and healthcare professionals, this paper introduces a prospective sustainable biosafety setting for everyday dental care and education. The setting developed by dental clinicians, epidemiologists, and teachers of dentistry consists of a combination of modern technologies focused on the air-borne part of the viral pathway. The introduced biosafety setting has been clinically evaluated after 18 months of application in the real clinical environment. The protocol has three fundamental pillars: (1) UVC air disinfection; (2) air saturation with certified virucidal essences with nebulizing diffusers; (3) complementary solutions including telehealth and 3D printing. A pseudonymous online smart form was used as the evaluation method. The protocol operates on the premise that everybody is a hypothetical asymptomatic carrier. The results of a clinical evaluation of 115 patient feedbacks imply that no virus transmission from patient to patient or from doctor to nurse was observed or reported using this protocol, and vice versa, although nine patients retrospectively admitted that the clinic visit is likely to be infectious. Despite these promising results, a larger clinical sample and exposition to the current mutated strains are needed for reliable conclusions about protocol virucidal efficiency in current dental environments.
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spelling pubmed-92660322022-07-09 Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study Thurzo, Andrej Urbanová, Wanda Waczulíková, Iveta Kurilová, Veronika Mriňáková, Bela Kosnáčová, Helena Gális, Branislav Varga, Ivan Matajs, Marek Novák, Bohuslav Int J Environ Res Public Health Article With the arrival of the highly transmissible Omicron variants (BA.4 and BA.5), dentistry faces another seasonal challenge to preserve the biosafety of dental care and education. With the aim of protecting patients, students, teachers and healthcare professionals, this paper introduces a prospective sustainable biosafety setting for everyday dental care and education. The setting developed by dental clinicians, epidemiologists, and teachers of dentistry consists of a combination of modern technologies focused on the air-borne part of the viral pathway. The introduced biosafety setting has been clinically evaluated after 18 months of application in the real clinical environment. The protocol has three fundamental pillars: (1) UVC air disinfection; (2) air saturation with certified virucidal essences with nebulizing diffusers; (3) complementary solutions including telehealth and 3D printing. A pseudonymous online smart form was used as the evaluation method. The protocol operates on the premise that everybody is a hypothetical asymptomatic carrier. The results of a clinical evaluation of 115 patient feedbacks imply that no virus transmission from patient to patient or from doctor to nurse was observed or reported using this protocol, and vice versa, although nine patients retrospectively admitted that the clinic visit is likely to be infectious. Despite these promising results, a larger clinical sample and exposition to the current mutated strains are needed for reliable conclusions about protocol virucidal efficiency in current dental environments. MDPI 2022-06-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9266032/ /pubmed/35805347 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137693 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Thurzo, Andrej
Urbanová, Wanda
Waczulíková, Iveta
Kurilová, Veronika
Mriňáková, Bela
Kosnáčová, Helena
Gális, Branislav
Varga, Ivan
Matajs, Marek
Novák, Bohuslav
Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study
title Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study
title_full Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study
title_fullStr Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study
title_full_unstemmed Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study
title_short Dental Care and Education Facing Highly Transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Variants: Prospective Biosafety Setting: Prospective, Single-Arm, Single-Center Study
title_sort dental care and education facing highly transmissible sars-cov-2 variants: prospective biosafety setting: prospective, single-arm, single-center study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9266032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35805347
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19137693
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