Abstract
ABSTRACT The Covid-19 is a global health threatening pandemic, so dental surgeons need to look for strategies to perform dental care safely for the patient, the dental professional himself, and the dental team. The goal is to design strategies to optimize dental impression practice during the Covid-19 pandemic. The strategies that optimize dental impression practice during the pandemic are to adopt the digital fingerprint workflow. If necessary, a conventional impression technique that favors the professional’s performance, select the impression material that is easy to decontaminate and affinity for the professional; the plaster leak must be performed still inside the dental office, and then the disinfection of the plaster model must be previously sent to the prosthesis laboratory.
Highlights
An outbreak of new coronavirus-transmitted disease (COVID-19) in China changed the living conditions of the population in several countries [1], and caused widespread public health problems [2], becoming a global health threat [3]
The Covid-19 is present in saliva samples from infected individuals; saliva is a potential source of infection for both professionals and dental patients, given the possible transmission routes involving aerosol, spatter or droplets containing saliva [8]
With the pandemic situation by Covid-19 dentists were instructed by regulatory authorities, such as the American Dental Association, to discontinue dental treatment of patients, except those in emergency condition
Summary
An outbreak of new coronavirus-transmitted disease (COVID-19) in China changed the living conditions of the population in several countries [1], and caused widespread public health problems [2], becoming a global health threat [3]. The new Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19), provided with a seafood market in the city Wuhan province of Hubei in China, has caused severe pneumonia and spread rapidly to other provinces in China and other countries [5,6]. This is a zoonotic infection, similar to other coronavirus infections, if believed to have originated in bats and subsequently transmitted to humans [2]. The Covid-19 is present in saliva samples from infected individuals; saliva is a potential source of infection for both professionals and dental patients, given the possible transmission routes involving aerosol, spatter or droplets containing saliva [8]
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