Dental care and infection control procedures during the COVID-19 pandemic- The experience in Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan

Coronavirus ailment 2019 (COVID-19), brought about by the extreme intense respiratory disorder coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has now broadly spread all around. The fundamental transmission courses of SARS-CoV-2 involve human-to-human bead contamination, including inward breath and contact disease of patient's spit, blood and other body liquids through oral mucosa, nasal mucosa, and the eyes, and orofecal transmission. Dental treatment requires nearness, eye to eye rehearses and can create beads or mist concentrates containing water, spit, blood, microorganisms, and different flotsam and jetsam during the strategy. Accordingly, dental experts are at a high danger of SARS-CoV-2 contamination. To forestall nosocomial SARS-CoV-2 spread during dental techniques, Taipei City Hospital set up a dental patient triage and work process calculation for the arrangement of dental administrations during the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the exceptionally infectious nature of SARS-CoV-2, it is basic to organize a proper standard procedural strategy for tolerant administration and proposal of dental treatment at emergency clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author(s): Ya-Ling Lee

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