Containment of biohazards in dentistry during covid-19 outbreak
International Journal of Development Research
Containment of biohazards in dentistry during covid-19 outbreak
Received 25th August, 2020; Received in revised form 29th September, 2020; Accepted 17th October, 2020; Published online 24th November, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Wanderson Carvalho de Almeida and Maria Ângela Arêa Leão Ferraz. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
COVID-19 is a virus infectious disease that started spreading from Wuhan by the end of 2019 to the entire globe rising great concern for health professionals, especially Dentists. Thus, this paper aims to review the current literature about the conduct of professionals and biosafety adopted in dental care after the appearance of COVID-19. A guiding question for this study was set by the PICO search strategy and the survey of the papers was performed in three different databases: PubMed, SciELO and LILACS using “Coronavirus infections”, “Dental care”, “COVID-19”, “Biosafety” and “Dentistry” as keywords. 125 Records were identified through database searching, among these records, 10 Full-text articles were assessed for eligibility and only 8 were included in the critical review. Dental and other health professionals in general should adopt the standards of care and infection control as well as keep updated to the new researches about the novel 2019 SARS-COV-2 pandemic settings to provide an adequate protection for the public and for themselves, considering that dentists are the health care professionals at the high risk of cross contamination due to the unique dental office settings.
