Possible Routes of Transmission and Precautions to be taken in Dental Practice from the Most Unwanted Evil COVID-19- A Review

Abstract

Nosocomial infections are responsible for thousands of deaths worldwide every year which occur mainly because of virus exposure. One of such kind of infectious disease that has recently caused an outbreak is COVID-19 and a novel corona virus was its causative agent. It was declared as pandemic and emergency of international concern by WHO. Among the health care professions, dentistry has high risk of microbial infections either by direct/indirect contact or by atmospheric transmission. In order to limit the effects of virus diffusion infection control is an important step. Data was collected from electronic databases like PubMed, Medline, Scopus by entering the key words and all the relevant articles were collected and reviewed. The present review highlights the importance of preventing the virus transmission by possible methods of infection control procedures which should be followed during every step of a treatment procedure in a clinical practice.

Keywords

• coronavirus disease
• disease transmission
• infection control
• severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus 2