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ArticleJournal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFP

Understanding the mechanism of commonly occurring COVID-19-associated oral lesions.

Susmita Saxena, Sanjeev Kumar

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Article in Journal of oral and maxillofacial pathology : JOMFP. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Susmita SaxenaDepartment of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, ESIC Dental College and Hospital, New Delhi, India.
Sanjeev KumarDepartment of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Faculty of Dental Sciences, SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana, India.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Covid-19 pandemic is a novel disease with gradual emergence of its signs and symptoms. Oral healthcare providers had a setback in their dental practices due to the high rate of infectivity and the risk of contracting the disease through the patients carrying the virus. Once the dental practice resumed to its normalcy the dental surgeons came across a variety of oral manifestations in patients with a history of Covid and post recovery. An attempt is made to recognise the Covid-19 oral manifestations with plausible explanation of the mechanism of development of such oral signs.

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Covid-19mechanismoral manifestations

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PMID34703113
PMCPMC8491355

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