Novel Coronavirus brings a New Challenge for Oral Health-Care Professionals

• Main Authors: Tarun Vyas, Aravinda Konidena, Ravleen Nagi, Deepankar Misra
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2020-01-01
• Series: Journal of International Clinical Dental Research Organization
• Subjects: coronavirus; dentists; examination; prevention; respiratory infection
• Online Access: http://www.jicdro.org/article.asp?issn=2231-0754;year=2020;volume=12;issue=2;spage=87;epage=93;aulast=Vyas

A flare-up of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the 2019 novel coronavirus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 [SARS-CoV-2]) started in the city of Wuhan in China and is viewed as another strain that has not been distinguished earlier in people. SARS-COV-2 dominatingly causes sickness that ranges from the basic virus to progressively SARS. Clinical highlights of the disease involve respiratory side effects as fever, hack, brevity of breath, and sore throat. Assessment and treatment of patients during COVID-19 pandemic is a test for the dental experts because of close face to face contact with the patients, thus implicating the requirement of prudent disease control measures. This article reviews the dental contemplations during COVID-19 flare-up in dental settings and prescribed administration conventions to dental experts in influenced territories.