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Review
. 2022 Jan-Mar;26(1):16-20.
doi: 10.4103/jomfp.jomfp_288_21. Epub 2022 Mar 31.

Coronavirus disease: Dental review

Saurabh Pratap Singh  1 , Pratyush Singh  2 , Om Prakash Gupta  3 , Shalini Gupta  1
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Review

Coronavirus disease: Dental review

Saurabh Pratap Singh et al. J Oral Maxillofac Pathol. 2022 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: Coronavirus disease-2019; SARS-CoV-2; dental aspect.

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Schematic presentation of genes in the genome of SARS-CoV, CoV-2, and MERS-CoV2 (Adopted from Fung et al. emerging microbes and infection, Vol.9, 558-570, 2020)
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