ReviewVaccines2022
Air Quality in Dental Care Facilities: Update to Current Management and Control Strategies Implementing New Technologies: A Comprehensive Review.
Review in Vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- The Effects of Indoor Pollutants on Health Care Workers, Patients, and Caregivers in Dental Clinics: A Systematic Review.European journal of dentistry · 2026Article
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- Sustainable Dental and Periodontal Practice: A Narrative Review on the 4R-Framework-Reduce, Reuse, Rethink, Recycle-And Waste Management Rationalization.Dentistry journal · 2025Review
- Application of nanotechnology to dentistry: Impact of graphene nanocomposites on clinical air quality.World journal of clinical cases · 2025Article
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- Patient Perspective on Dental Care Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey During Omicron Stage.Journal of patient experience · 2025Article
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Abstract
The quality of indoor air in healthcare facilities, with an emphasis on dental offices, attracted the attention of the scientific community in the late 1960s. Since then, it has become evident that the indoor air quality is critical in modern dental care facilities for limiting the spread of airborne infections, including vaccine-preventable diseases, and a key component of safety for healthcare personnel and patients. In the past decades, the role of indoor air quality has also been recognized in non-healthcare facilities, given the increasing time spent indoors by humans. During the provision of dental care services, mainly in the field of restorative dentistry, high-speed dental handpieces emitting air and water are used, producing large quantities of aerosol and hovering inside the operations area. In modern dental offices, new devices emitting air/powder for cavities improvement and cleaning as well as for periodontal prophylactic cleaning and aesthetics are used. In addition, a new therapeutic protocol for the removal of bacterial biofilm, targeting treatment for peri-implant diseases and conditions using air-abrasive decontamination technology, has been introduced in daily dental practice. The aim of this non-systemic review is to present the current state of knowledge on the nature and dynamics of air splatters and to provide an update to management and control strategies in dental care facilities, focusing on air purification and ultraviolet devices proposed and used. The findings arising from the limited number of related published articles documenting the reduction in levels of particular matter 2.5 (PM
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