Biosafety in Dental Practices Versus COVID-19 Outbreak

Authors :: Ingrid Garcia Santos
Vívian Gonçalves Carvalho Souza
Guilherme Thomaz Verly da Silva
Aneliese Holetz de Toledo Lourenço
Laísa Araujo Cortines Laxe
Ana Carolina Morais Apolônio
Source :: Pesquisa Brasileira em Odontopediatria e Clínica Integrada, Vol 21 (2021)
Publication Year :: 2021
Publisher :: Association of Support to Oral Health Research (APESB), 2021.
Abstract: Objective: To evaluate the dentists' knowledge about biosafety considering the SARS-CoV-2 and the risks of increasing the COVID-19 outbreak by dental practices during the pandemic in Brazil. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed by internet-based snowball sampling technique. A questionnaire with questions about different content was applied, and then analyzed the following two parameters: participants’ Brazilian region and professional’s specialty. Results: A total of 413 e-questionnaires from all Brazilian regions were considered valid. There were no significant differences among biosafety measures adopted by participants from different Brazilian regions (p≥0.05), except for those from North region, which have applied less previous oral antisepsis, temperature screening, and specific anamnesis tracking COVID-19 symptoms (p