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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Managing the Oral Health of Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of a Dental Clinic in a Cancer Center.

Sunita Manuballa, Marym Abdelmaseh, Nirmala Tasgaonkar, Vladimir Frias, Michael Hess, Heidi Crow, Sebastiano Andreana, Vishal Gupta, Kimberly E Wooten, Michael R Markiewicz and 3 more

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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 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors.

Sunita ManuballaDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Marym AbdelmasehDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Nirmala TasgaonkarDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Vladimir FriasDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Michael HessDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Heidi CrowDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Sebastiano AndreanaDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Vishal GuptaDepartment of Head and Neck/Plastic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Kimberly E WootenDepartment of Head and Neck/Plastic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Michael R MarkiewiczDepartment of Head and Neck/Plastic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Anurag K SinghDepartment of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Wesley L HicksDepartment of Head and Neck/Plastic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.
Mukund SeshadriDepartment of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8729-9532

Funding

Two-Spirit Films in Indigenous Cancer HealthP30CA016056 · NCI · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI Dean G. Tang · 1985 to 2026
$116.6M
Impact of Vitamin D on the Chemopreventive Efficacy of Erlotinib against Oral CancerR01DE024595 · NIDCR · ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE CORP · PI SESHADRI, MUKUND · 2016 to 2020
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS P30CA016056NCI NIH HHS R01DE024595NIDCR NIH HHS R01 DE024595
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The practice of dentistry has been dramatically altered by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Given the close person-to-person contact involved in delivering dental care and treatment procedures that produce aerosols, dental healthcare professionals including dentists, dental assistants and dental hygienists are at high risk of exposure. As a dental clinic in a comprehensive cancer center, we have continued to safely provide medically necessary and urgent/emergent dental care to ensure that patients can adhere to their planned cancer treatment. This was accomplished through timely adaptation of clinical workflows and implementation of practice modification measures in compliance with state, national and federal guidelines to ensure that risk of transmission remained low and the health of both immunocompromised cancer patients and clinical staff remained protected. In this narrative review, we share our experience and measures that were implemented in our clinic to ensure that the oral health needs of cancer patients were met in a timely manner and in a safe environment. Given that the pandemic is still on-going, the impact of our modified oral healthcare delivery model in cancer patients warrants continued monitoring and assessment.

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cancer patientsCOVID-19dentalhead and neck canceroral oncologyoral surgery

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PMID32998403
PMCPMC7600784

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