Open AccessCOVID-19 and oral lesions: A review
Author(s) -
Vinay Dua,
Amandeep Kaur,
Ankit Sikri,
Mitasha Sachdeva
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of dental panacea
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2348-8727
DOI - 10.18231/j.jdp.2021.023
Subject(s) - pandemic , covid-19 , pneumonia , medicine , coronavirus , intensive care medicine , causation , virology , outbreak , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , political science , law
A new coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) was detected in China at the end of 2019 and has since caused a worldwide pandemic. This virus is responsible for an acute respiratory syndrome (COVID-19), distinguished by a potentially lethal interstitial bilateral pneumonia. As Sars-CoV-2 is highly infective through airborne contamination, the high infection risk in the dental environment is a serious problem for both professional practitioners and patients. This literature overview at analyzing various reports available on oral symptoms along with possible causation, their relationship to the time of occurrence of clinical symptoms of this global pandemic.