Abstract
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has become a real challenge for healthcare providers around the world and has significantly affected the dental professionals in practices, universities and research institutions. The aim of this article was to review the available literature on the relevant aspects of dentistry in relation to COVID-19 and to discuss potential impacts of COVID-19 outbreak on clinical dentistry, dental education and research. Although the coronavirus pandemic has caused many difficulties for provision of clinical dentistry, there would be an opportunity for the dental educators to modernize their teaching approaches using novel digital concepts in teaching of clinical skills and by enhancement of online communication and learning platforms. This pandemic has also highlighted some of the major gaps in dental research and the need for new relevant knowledge to manage the current crisis and minimize the impact of such outbreaks on dentistry in the future. In conclusion, COVID-19 has had many immediate complications for dentistry of which some may have further long-term impacts on clinical practice, dental education and dental research.
Highlights
A highly infectious pneumonia started to spread in Wuhan, China, from 12 December 2019 [1].In early January 2020, the officials announced the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as the causative pathogen of the disease [2]
The aim of this article was to review the available literature on the relevant aspects of dentistry in relation to COVID-19 and to discuss potential impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic on clinical dentistry, dental education and research
Clinical manifestations of the COVID-19 have not been associated with any visual impairment; some evidence suggests that eye exposure can provide a viable transmission route to the host’s body, and its spread is not limited to the respiratory tract [7,28]
Summary
A highly infectious pneumonia started to spread in Wuhan, China, from 12 December 2019 [1]. In early January 2020, the officials announced the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) as the causative pathogen of the disease [2]. This novel viral pneumonia was named “Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19)”. Some evidence highlighted the production of sputum, headache, diarrhea and hemoptysis amongst the less common clinical symptoms [7,8,9] These symptoms are slightly different from those of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by SARS coronavirus which was widely spread in early 2000s. A meta-analysis of 1527 patients with COVID-19 reported an overall case fatality rate of 2.3% in the entire cohort This rate was significantly higher in patients with hypertension, diabetes, and CVD with 6, 7.3, and 10.5 percent, respectively [21,22]. The aim of this article was to review the available literature on the relevant aspects of dentistry in relation to COVID-19 and to discuss potential impacts of the novel coronavirus pandemic on clinical dentistry, dental education and research
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