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ArticleEuropean journal of dentistry2020

COVID-19 Pandemic: Oral Health Challenges and Recommendations.

Fathima Fazrina Farook, Mohamed Nizam Mohamed Nuzaim, Khansa Taha Ababneh, Abdulsalam Alshammari, Lubna Alkadi

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Article in European journal of dentistry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Fathima Fazrina FarookDepartment of Preventive Dental Science, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Mohamed Nizam Mohamed NuzaimDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Khansa Taha AbabnehDepartment of Preventive Dental Science, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdulsalam AlshammariDepartment of Preventive Dental Science, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Lubna AlkadiDepartment of Preventive Dental Science, College of Dentistry, King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
King Abdullah International Medical Research Center · SAUniversity of Malaya · MY

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of this article is to shed light on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and its oral effects and risk of nosocomial transmission to update the knowledge of dental health care workers. A thorough literature search of the PubMed/Embase/Web of Science/Cochrane central database was conducted to identify the impact of COVID-19 on oral health. We reviewed the recommendations on the recent guidelines set by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention infection control practices for dentistry, American Dental Association, and the World Health Organization. According to the available evidence, COVID-19 may have a negative impact on the oral health due to the infection itself and due to various other consequences such as therapeutic measures, xerostomia, and other complications of the COVID-19. In light of the above facts, dentists should be wary of the disease, its identification, mode of spread and impacts on the oral health. The dental personnel have been identified as at the highest risk of getting COVID-19 due to cross infection from contact with their patients and aerosols generated in routine dental procedures. As such, they should be aware of the modifications that need to be made to the practice to prevent transmission of the disease. It is evident that COVID-19 has a negative impact on the oral health and at the same time a significant transmission risk to the dental personnel and patients who visit the clinic. If the recommendations issued by the regulatory authorities are meticulously followed, the risk of disease transmission can be lessened.

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