Oral Health and COVID-19: Increasing the Need for Prevention and Access

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Brian, Zachary ; Weintraub, Jane A.
• Description:
  Populations disproportionately affected by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are also at higher risk for oral diseases and experience oral health and oral health care disparities at higher rates. COVID-19 has led to closure and reduced hours of dental practices except for emergency and urgent services, limiting routine care and prevention. Dental care includes aerosol-generating procedures that can increase viral transmission. The pandemic offers an opportunity for the dental profession to shift more toward nonaerosolizing, prevention-centric approaches to care and away from surgical interventions. Regulatory barrier changes to oral health care access during the pandemic could have a favorable impact if sustained into the future.
• Subjects:
  Betacoronavirus Commentary Coronavirus Infections COVID-19 Global Health Humans Hygiene Oral Health Pandemics Pneumonia, Viral
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Pubmed ID:
  32790606
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC7458118
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Volume:
  17
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/93358/cdc_93358_DS1.pdf
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