Previously submitted to: JMIR Public Health and Surveillance (no longer under consideration since Jun 11, 2020)
Date Submitted: May 12, 2020
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Covid 19 and dental practice: A review of literature
ABSTRACT
Background:
Covid 19 (coronavirus) is a global concern since it is spreading fast as a droplet infection leading to fever, cough, and acute respiratory disease
Objective:
This paper aimed to provide an ample literature review of Covid 19 and its implications on dental practice.
Methods:
A systematic literature review was made through Pubmed, Medline database and Google scholar search engine using key words; coronavirus, covid-19, oral health, dental aerosol, dental implicational, management.
Results:
A total of 210 articles were reviewed and in this only 59 relevant article pertaining to covid-19 and dentistry were used for this study.
Conclusions:
The current outburst of the coronavirus strain 2019 (COVID-19) represents a public health emergency of global distress. Dentistry is the field of medicine which has suffered a lot. The present article highlighted various challenges and effect of coronavirus on oral health and its implication. Clinical Trial: not applicable
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