Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus was first reported in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has rapidly spread worldwide at an unprecedented rate and has profound health and socioeconomic effects directly affecting all fields. From the onset of the pandemic, the authors realized the impending impact on the dental field. Dental professionals are uniquely exposed to environments with high levels of infection risk from aerosols and oral fluids. Dental treatment has become a challenge during the epidemic. However, the light of optimism has faded with the onset of vaccination.
 The purpose of this article is to provide guidance to dental surgeons on how to adapt their current practice during and after the COVID-19 pandemic with respect to consultation activity, surgical activity, and drug prescribing in oral surgery. Thus, an electronic search was performed from PubMed (MEDLINE), Scopus, Cochrane, Google Scholar and Sciencedirect databases. 35 articles were identified of which 24 were selected to compose this article. Within the limitations of this literature review, the presence of the virus is inevitable in oral surgery practice. Dentists must continue to provide care to their patients while monitoring the evolution of Covid-19.
Highlights
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the epidemic caused by the Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)-CoV-2 virus had constituted a public health emergency of international concern [1]
In oral surgery and other dental specialties, medical and paramedical personnel are vulnerable to contamination
-anosmia ± agueusia of less than one month; The patient has been in contact with COVID-19 positive persons for at least 15 min
Summary
On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the epidemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus had constituted a public health emergency of international concern [1]. This epidemic had had a significant impact on the management of patients in all surgical and medical specialties. [3] Dentistry has certain specificities that make it a unique medical discipline because of the -exposure of the practitioner, the assistant, and the patients to the risk of contamination. Any diagnostic or therapeutic procedure at the level of the oral cavity involves a risk of dissemination of the virus and contamination of the care team by inhalation of contaminated droplets or ocular projections or by indirect transmission by hand or via contaminated surfaces or objects [5]
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