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ReviewBioMed research international2020

Environmental Disinfection of a Dental Clinic during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Narrative Insight.

Antonio Scarano, Francesco Inchingolo, Felice Lorusso

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Review in BioMed research international, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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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

28 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  19. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Dentistry and Dental Education: A Narrative Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Antonio ScaranoDepartment of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1374-6146
Francesco InchingoloDepartment of Interdisciplinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", 70121 Bari, Italy.
Felice LorussoDepartment of Medical, Oral and Biotechnological Sciences, University of Chieti-Pescara, Via dei Vestini 31, 66100 Chieti, Italy.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThe control of biological hazard risk in health care and dental clinic environments represents a critical point in relation to the Covid-19 infection outbreak and international public health emergency. The purpose of the present review was to evaluate the scientific literature on the no-touch disinfection procedures in dental clinics aiming to limit transmission via airborne particles or fomites using no-touch procedures for environmental decontamination of dental clinics.

methodsAn electronic database literature search was performed to retrieve research papers about Covid-19 and no-touch disinfection topics including full-length articles, editorials, commentaries, and outbreak studies. A total of 86 papers were retrieved by the electronic research.

resultsNo clinical article about the decontamination of a dental clinic during the Covid-19 pandemic was detected. About the topic of hospital decontamination, we found different no-touch disinfection procedures used in hospital against highly resistant organisms, but no data were found in the search for such procedures with respect to SARS-CoV-2: (1) aerosolized hydrogen peroxide, (2) H

conclusionThe decontamination technique that best suits the needs of the dental clinic is peroxide and hypochlorous which can be sprayed via a device at high turbine speed with the ability of producing small aerosol particles, recommendable also for their low cost.

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AerosolsCOVID-19Databases, FactualDecontaminationDental ClinicsDisinfectionHumansHydrogen PeroxideSARS-CoV-2Ultraviolet RaysXenonAerosolsHydrogen PeroxideXenon

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PMID33145359
PMCPMC7596431

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