Open AccessA literature review on precautionary measures in dental practice during the pandemic: Covid-19
Author(s) -
Lalita Sheoran,
Monika Sehrawat,
Divya Sharma,
Dania Fatima,
Marikinda Manzoor
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ip indian journal of orthodontics and dentofacial research/ip indian journal of orthodontics and dentofacial research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2581-9356
pISSN - 2581-9364
DOI - 10.18231/j.ijodr.2021.018
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , saliva , asymptomatic , dental practice , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , contamination , virus , virology , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , dentistry , biology , pathology , outbreak , computer science , telecommunications , ecology
During the spread of pandemic disease, dental practice come across the highest risk of corona virus infection by the exposure from patient saliva, aerosols generation during the dental procedure, blood contamination during oral surgical procedure. This virus can be transmitted from symptomatic to asymptomatic individual through aerosol spread, saliva contamination. Due to its ability of airborne transmission, so aerosols generated through natural activity or during the time of any dental treatment procedure has the ability to transmit the virus from infected person to the surrounding person.