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Infection Control in Dental Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Source :
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Vol 17, Iss 4769, p 4769 (2020), Volume 17, Issue 13
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- COVID-19 is the disease supported by SARS-CoV-2 infection, which causes a severe form of pneumonia. Due to the pathophysiological characteristics of the COVID-19 syndrome, the particular transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2, and the high globalization of our era, the epidemic emergency from China has spread rapidly all over the world. Human-to-human transmission seems to occur mainly through close contact with symptomatic people affected by COVID-19, and the main way of contagion is via the inhalation of respiratory droplets, for example when patients talk, sneeze or cough. The ability of the virus to survive outside living organisms, in aerosol or on fomites has also been recognized. The dental practitioners are particularly exposed to a high risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection because they cannot always respect the interpersonal distance of more than a meter and are exposed to saliva, blood, and other body fluids during surgical procedures. Moreover, many dental surgeries can generate aerosol, and the risk of airborne infection is to be considered higher. The aim of this paper is to provide practical advice for dentists based on the recent literature, which may be useful in reducing the risk of spreading COVID-19 during clinical practice.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
prevention procedures
Dentists
Pneumonia, Viral
infection in dentistry
lcsh:Medicine
SARS virus
Disease
Article
coronavirus infection
03 medical and health sciences
Betacoronavirus
0302 clinical medicine
Professional Role
hand hygiene
Pandemic
medicine
Infection control
Humans
Mass Screening
030212 general & internal medicine
guidelines
Intensive care medicine
Dental Care
Personal protective equipment
Pandemics
Personal Protective Equipment
Mass screening
Practice Patterns, Dentists'
Infection Control
dentistry
business.industry
Transmission (medicine)
SARS-CoV-2
lcsh:R
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
COVID-19
030206 dentistry
medicine.disease
business
Coronavirus Infections
preventive dentistry
Pneumonia (non-human)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 16604601
- Volume :
- 17
- Issue :
- 13
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International journal of environmental research and public health
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....951868acbe901c1a020ceb54da20d7fe