COVID -19 PANDEMIC JEOPARDY IN DENTISTRY PROSTHODONTIC IMPLICATIONS, CLINICAL CARE AND CONTROL-A REVIEW

Janapati Divya; Dr. C.Ravi kumar; Dr. M.Sujesh; Dr. D.Chalapathi Rao; Dr. K.Sunitha

Volume : IX, Issue : VI, June - 2020

COVID -19 PANDEMIC JEOPARDY IN DENTISTRY PROSTHODONTIC IMPLICATIONS, CLINICAL CARE AND CONTROL-A REVIEW

Janapati Divya, Dr. C. Ravi Kumar, Dr. M. Sujesh, Dr. D. Chalapathi Rao, Dr. K. Sunitha

Abstract :

This article is intended to collect all information needed for dentists especially for the prosthodontists regarding COVID –19 pandemic throughout the world by reviewing articles published till now . ACE–2 was expressing on oral cavity mucosa and the receptor had been heavily enriched in tongue epithelial cells. Thus there is a potentially huge COVID–19 infectious vulnerability risk for oral cavity. Despite global efforts to prevent the disease spread, the outeak is still on a rise because of the community spread pattern of this infection. Dental professionals, especially prosthodontists, where there is more probability of contact with oral mucous memanes and saliva will have to provide care as well as prevention from nosocomial infection simultaneously.However there is no defenite treatment protocol for COVID–19, We have to follow safety measures during dental practice to block person–to–person transmission routes in dental clinics and hospitals by patient screening, infection control strategies, and patient management protocol.Thus, the aim of this article provides a ief overview of the routes of transmission ,clinical care, prosthodontic implications, safety measures of this novel infection.