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THE CONNECTION BETWEEN ORAL HEALTH AND COVID-19 SEVERITY

Author(s) -

Unnati Gedam,

D K Jain,

Amit Varma

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

international journal of medical science and diagnosis research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2589-7837

pISSN - 2581-3935

DOI - 10.32553/ijmsdr.v5i5.790

Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , oral hygiene , pandemic , disease , oral health , hygiene , obesity , quality of life (healthcare) , intensive care medicine , environmental health , infectious disease (medical specialty) , family medicine , virology , dentistry , pathology , nursing , outbreak

“Oral health is a reflection of the physiological, social, and psychological factors that are essential to our quality of life”. COVID -19 is becoming a threat all over the world. Obesity, diabetes, and hypertension are common underlying conditions in patients that develop serious COVID-19 complications. In the meantime, evidence of a correlation between oral health and severity of COVID-19 disease is growing, According to various studies, the particular ingredient in some affordable and readily available mouthwash products is highly effective at inactivating the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19. Simple oral hygiene measures may help reduce the risk of the novel coronavirus spreading from the mouth to the lungs, as well as prevent serious COVID-19 infections. This article briefly reports the importance of oral hygiene and its link with COVID-19 severity. Keywords: COVID-19, Oral health, severity, global pandemic

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