Literature Review on cross-infection control in dental care in time of covid 19

Abstract

Currently the covid-19 virus, thousands of people are presenting a pathology that affects the respiratory tract, whose infections grew immeasurably with a high mortality rate, generating a pandemic, significantly affecting work in the different areas of health. The objective of this research was: Determine the importance of cross infection control in dental care in times of COVID -19 and its analysis from the actions applied from the positive and the negative in dental medical practice. For the development it self the methodology applied was a qualitative research, one of the elements in consideration was that the participants in the dental practice are exposed to a high risk of infection by SARS-CoV-2, in addition many references on this topic can be found in articles and information sources that express that dentists are the most exposed in dental practice to the contagion of covid-19, also highlighting the survey was carried out through the identification of scientific articles to find results. The studies on the subject concluded that the levels of contamination are high in the bucal area since an elementary factor of contagion is the secretion of saliva particles