The impact of the COVID-19 infection in dentistry

Pier Carmine Passarelli; Edoardo Rella; Paolo Francesco Manicone; Franklin Garcia-Godoy; Antonio D'Addona

doi:10.1177/1535370220928905

The impact of the COVID-19 infection in dentistry

Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2020 Jun;245(11):940-944. doi: 10.1177/1535370220928905. Epub 2020 May 21.

Authors

Pier Carmine Passarelli¹, Edoardo Rella¹, Paolo Francesco Manicone¹, Franklin Garcia-Godoy^{2

3}, Antonio D'Addona¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Head and Neck and Sensory Organs, Division of Oral Surgery and Implantology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS-Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168, Italy.
² Department of Bioscience Research, College of Dentistry, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA.
³ The Forsyth Center, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.

Abstract

Dentists have always been taught how to protect themselves and their patients from potential blood-borne pathogens, but the Coronavirus pandemic has brought a new unprecedented challenge to the world of dentistry; we therefore reviewed the literature to provide suggestions on how to accordingly change dental practice prevention.

Keywords: Coronavirus; dentistry; risk management.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission*
Dental Assistants
Dental Health Services
Dental Hygienists
Dentistry / methods*
Dentists
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission*
Risk Management / methods*
SARS-CoV-2
Triage / methods