AN ARTICLE REVIEW STEP BY STEP ABOUT PREVENTIVE MEASURES TO PREVENT INFECTION BY COVID-19 IN DENTAL CLINIC

Abstract

A huge public health concern is the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. As dentists, both our dental staff and our patients have significant roles in reducing their susceptibility to the infection. The team is at a high risk of infectious infection and likely spread of viruses because of the existence of our job. One of the best strategies to combat this pandemic is to facilitate successful social isolation. As dental professionals, though, we are confronting the double task of shielding our staff and shielding our patients from exposure to the environment from all sides by ensuring that our patients continue to be able to receive urgency / emergency dental services. Both the dentist / dental staff and the patient are at a strong risk of cross-infection because of their existence, and this is for many reasons, the most two important reasons which are; 1) the needed distancing between dental worker and the patient (which is about one to two meters) that we can’t save it during dental treatment. 2) The dental treatment are applied inside the oral cavity which is the biggest source of contamination with the virus especially when we use high speed hand piece with cooling water that lead to highly spread of aerosols, which are loaded by blood and saliva droplet containing viruses, that spread to the environment of dental room and surfaces. Therefor the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to the absolute requirement for strict and effective infection control protocols beyond those that already exist within the dental setting. The purpose of this position statement is to establish a standard operating protocol for dental practice