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Oral Health: Opportunities for Lifestyle Medicine Highlighted by the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
- Source :
- Am J Lifestyle Med
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2021.
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Abstract
- A significant amount of illness has origins in oral microorganisms. The current SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) pandemic has reduced the general population’s access to and use of routine and nonemergency dental care. This creates a dangerous situation in which oral bacteria, fungi, and viruses may remain unchecked and allowed to flourish, which in turn increases risks for several systemic diseases as well as negative outcomes for pregnancies and surgical patients. This situation presents opportunities for health maintenance and disease prevention by individuals as well as for dental health professionals to use anti-infective treatments and procedures. Lifestyle medicine professionals have a chance to encourage behaviors that individuals can undertake to promote good oral health outside of the dentist’s office as well as shaping public perceptions about and reinforcing the importance of resuming dental visits as governmental restrictions allow.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
education.field_of_study
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Health Policy
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Population
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Medicine (miscellaneous)
030206 dentistry
Disease
Oral health
stomatognathic diseases
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
Lifestyle medicine
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
business
Intensive care medicine
education
Themed Pieces
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15598284 and 15598276
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....de6cc525d3f77c1bdf01ae6b118dadc8