ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2022
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affects Risk Awareness in Dentists: A Scoping Review.
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- Assessment of dentists' knowledge and awareness of oral manifestations of COVID-19 and the impact of pandemic waves on dental practice in India - an embedded study.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Vaccination rate and symptoms of long COVID among dental teams in Germany.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Knowledge, attitude, and practice of dental health professionals toward dental impression disinfection protocol during the COVID-19 pandemic in Saudi Arabia- a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2024Article
- First Year of Special Issue "New Insights in Vaccination and Public Health": Opinions and Considerations.Vaccines · 2023Article
- Infection Control in Dental Practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic: What Is Changed?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Determinants of COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance among Dental Professionals: A Multi-Country Survey.Vaccines · 2022Article
- Assessing the Compliance of Dental Clinicians towards Regulatory Infection Control Guidelines Using a Newly Developed Survey Tool: A Pilot Cross-Sectional Study in India.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Economic Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Dental Practices in Germany: A Cross-Sectional Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Observational
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Abstract
Dentists are on the frontline of infection, especially when it comes to respiratory viruses like the new coronavirus. The purpose of this paper is to conduct a scoping review to better understand dentists' risk awareness, awareness of COVID-19 symptoms, preventive measures, and effective methods of COVID-19 infection prevention and management. This paper systematically assesses the published literature on dentistry and COVID-19. Various electronic databases including Ovid MEDLINE, Scopus, Embase, and MEDLINE via PubMed were searched up to 9 September 2021. Overall, 39 papers were included. Almost the entirety of dentists (94.5%) reported awareness of the three most common COVID-19 symptoms, and a risk awareness score of about 90% was shown, while 88.2% of dentists reported adopting preventive measures. More than 50% did not want to treat infected people. While 70.3% of dentists recommended usage of N95 masks, the rate of dentists using them was below 40%. Sufficient awareness of risks during the pandemic was found in dentists. Although they were using preventive measures, there remains upside potential for adopting all recommended measures. Further, the usage of N95 masks is improvable, even though the benefit of wearing them could not be confirmed.
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