Dental patients and staff need to be protected from any potential infection by aerosol-generating procedures, the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
FILE PHOTO: A dentist tends to a patient at Silveroaks Dental Surgery as it opens for non aerosol generating assessments in Milton Keynes, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease , Milton Keynes, Britain, June 8, 2020.
"WHO guidance recommends in case of community transmission to give priority to urgent or emergency oral cases, to avoid or minimise procedures that may generate aerosol, prioritise a set of clinical interventions that are performed using an instrument and of course to delay routine non-essential oral health care," Benoit Varenne, a WHO dental officer, told a news briefing.
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