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| Year : 2022 |
Volume
: 26 | Issue : 1 | Page
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Coronavirus disease: Dental review
Saurabh Pratap Singh1, Pratyush Singh2, Om Prakash Gupta3, Shalini Gupta1
1 Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Maharana Pratap Institute, Kanpur, India
3 Department of General Surgery, Career Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Shalini Gupta
Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, King George's Medical University, Lucknow 226 003, Uttar Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_288_21
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COVID-19 was declared a pandemic outbreak by the World Health Organization, creating a significant impact on health care system. Realizing the high risk associated with this disease and its high rate of transmission, dentists were instructed by health authorities, to stop providing treatment which includes aerosols and droplets and only except emergency complaints. This was mainly for protection of dental healthcare personnel, their families, contacts, and their patients from the transmission of virus. Hence, this review focuses on the life cycle of COVID-19, its clinical symptoms and several issues concerned directly to dental practice in terms of prevention, treatment, and orofacial clinical manifestations.
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