Abstract

  The corona virus disease also known as COVID-19, is a viral infection that first reported in Wuhan, China in last month of 2019, which rapidly involve the most of countries in world. Covid-19 infection transmitted through droplet, when a person is in close contact with Covid-19 positive person. Since dental professionals has an unique operatory environment which involve close examination of oral cavity and aerosol generation during the clinical procedures, the risk of Covid-19 transmission from an infected patient is very high. Present article provides the insight of Covid-19 infection and precautions and considerations to the practice dentistry in this pandemic.

Keywords: Covid-19; Dentistry; Pandemic

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Citation

Citation: Pratik Surana., et al. “Covid 19 - A New Normal for Dentistry during Pandemic". Acta Scientific Dental Sciences 4.12 (2020): 39-41.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Pratik Surana., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.