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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Recommendations for Dental Care during COVID-19 Pandemic.

Katarzyna Gurzawska-Comis, Kathrin Becker, Giulia Brunello, Agata Gurzawska, Frank Schwarz

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 29 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

29 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  3. Determining the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dental Care in the Serbian Adult Population: An Online Questionnaire-Based Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2023
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  7. COVID-19: Another Cause of Dental Anxiety?Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2022
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  17. COVID-19 in Dental Settings: Novel Risk Assessment Approach.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Katarzyna Gurzawska-ComisDepartment of Oral Surgery, University of Birmingham, 5 Mill Pool Way, Edgbaston, Birmingham B5 7EG, UK.
Kathrin BeckerDepartment of Orthodontics, Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf, Moorenstr. 5, Building 18.21, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1936-4683
Giulia BrunelloDepartment of Neurosciences, Dentistry Section, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128 Padova, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-1436-0085
Agata GurzawskaTrilateral Research Ireland, Marine Point, Belview Port, X91 W0XW Waterford, Ireland.
Frank SchwarzDepartment of Oral Surgery and Implantology, Carolinum, Goethe University, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7/Haus 29, 60596 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dental clinics were suspected to be a hotspot for nosocomial transmission of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19), yet there has been no clear recommendation about emergency dental care and appropriate personal protective equipment during pandemics. In this paper, we aim to summarize recommendations for (i) patient risk assessment, (ii) patient triage, and (iii) measures to prevent infection of health professionals and nosocomial transmission in dental clinics. The available evidence was collected by performing searches on PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane databases. We reviewed papers on COVID-19, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), influenza, and related respiratory viral diseases. Legal and ethical frameworks, as well as international (e.g., World Health Organization (WHO)) and national (e.g., public health institutes, dental associations) guidelines were screened to summarize recommendations related to dental emergency care. To assess the patient risk, a questionnaire was developed to classify patients at unknown, high, and very high risk. Patient triage recommendations were summarized in a flow chart that graded the emergency level of treatments (i.e., urgent, as soon as possible, and postpone). Measures to prevent disease transmission based on current evidence were grouped for dental health professionals, dental clinics, and patients. The present recommendations may support health professionals implement preventative measures during the pandemic.

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coronavirusCOVID-19dental emergency treatmentpatient questionnairepatient triageSARS-CoV-2

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PMID32545477
PMCPMC7357003

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