Emerging Challenges and Threats for Dental Health Care Sector Attributable to COVID-19: Tale of a Developing Country

Asma Sadruddin Pethani; Raheel Rehman Allana; Mehmood Hussain

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Emerging Challenges and Threats for Dental Health Care Sector Attributable to COVID-19: Tale of a Developing Country

Asma Sadruddin Pethani, Raheel Rehman Allana, Mehmood Hussain

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Prevention and control of infection in dentistry is an essential matter that has gained immense attention in recent years. There exist a lack of scientific data about the cross-transmission and its associated risk, especially in the dental health care setting of Pakistan. This article will evaluate the emerging challenges and threats for the dental community in Pakistan attributable to the COVID-19 outbreak. There is a significant knowledge gap regarding the state- and institutional-level of infection prevention and control (IPC) policies and practices. In addition, not much is known about the development, implementation, and monitoring of IPC policies and its challenges.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	278-280
Number of pages	3
Journal	Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
Volume	32
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1010539520932708
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2020
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

challenges
cross-infection
dentistry
microorganisms
outbreak preparedness

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