Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistry
Dental centers have been referred to as a hub or reservoir for infection, where healthcare professionals and other staff, patients and the public together may potentially spread pathogenic microorganisms. This may occur via saliva, skin or indirectly through air, water, and contaminated surfaces or...
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| author | Gülsüm Ak Ayşem Yurtseven Günay Ryan Olley Nazmiye Şen |
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| description | Dental centers have been referred to as a hub or reservoir for infection, where healthcare professionals and other staff, patients and the public together may potentially spread pathogenic microorganisms. This may occur via saliva, skin or indirectly through air, water, and contaminated surfaces or instruments. Everyone should therefore be considered as potential sources of infection. During a pandemic, limiting unnecessary care has been adopted as a clinical measure for some patient’s, to reduce the risk of cross-infection in the short term. However, in order to enable continuation of necessary and qualified care, dental processes need to follow specific infection control strategies in order to prevent transmission of emerging pandemic risks following COVID-19. In this article, we develop a tool with practical recommendations to mitigate infection risks before, during and following pandemics to enable ongoing dental care provision in primary and secondary care based on national and global recommendations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-a0defea7f86341519f6673ab1d3617f22025-08-20T03:10:58ZengIstanbul UniversityEuropean Oral Research2651-28232020-05-0154210110710.26650/eor.20200056123456Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistryGülsüm Ak0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3339-1568Ayşem Yurtseven Günay1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1161-1005Ryan Olley2https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1178-5013Nazmiye Şen3https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2768-2112İstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiyeİstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, TürkiyeCardiff University, Cardiff, United-Kingdomİstanbul Üniversitesi, İstanbul, TürkiyeDental centers have been referred to as a hub or reservoir for infection, where healthcare professionals and other staff, patients and the public together may potentially spread pathogenic microorganisms. This may occur via saliva, skin or indirectly through air, water, and contaminated surfaces or instruments. Everyone should therefore be considered as potential sources of infection. During a pandemic, limiting unnecessary care has been adopted as a clinical measure for some patient’s, to reduce the risk of cross-infection in the short term. However, in order to enable continuation of necessary and qualified care, dental processes need to follow specific infection control strategies in order to prevent transmission of emerging pandemic risks following COVID-19. In this article, we develop a tool with practical recommendations to mitigate infection risks before, during and following pandemics to enable ongoing dental care provision in primary and secondary care based on national and global recommendations.https://cdn.istanbul.edu.tr/file/JTA6CLJ8T5/4814BBCB8D134D9EA7F5B8A3B225A82Ccovid-19protection measuresdentistrytransmission routescross-infection |
| spellingShingle | Gülsüm Ak Ayşem Yurtseven Günay Ryan Olley Nazmiye Şen Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistry European Oral Research covid-19 protection measures dentistry transmission routes cross-infection |
| title | Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistry |
| title_full | Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistry |
| title_fullStr | Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistry |
| title_short | Managing emerging challenges of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in dentistry |
| title_sort | managing emerging challenges of coronavirus disease 2019 covid 19 in dentistry |
| topic | covid-19 protection measures dentistry transmission routes cross-infection |
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