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Managing the Oral Health of Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of a Dental Clinic in a Cancer Center
- Source :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine, Vol 9, Iss 3138, p 3138 (2020), Journal of Clinical Medicine, Volume 9, Issue 10
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2020.
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Abstract
- The practice of dentistry has been dramatically altered by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Given the close person-to-person contact involved in delivering dental care and treatment procedures that produce aerosols, dental healthcare professionals including dentists, dental assistants and dental hygienists are at high risk of exposure. As a dental clinic in a comprehensive cancer center, we have continued to safely provide medically necessary and urgent/emergent dental care to ensure that patients can adhere to their planned cancer treatment. This was accomplished through timely adaptation of clinical workflows and implementation of practice modification measures in compliance with state, national and federal guidelines to ensure that risk of transmission remained low and the health of both immunocompromised cancer patients and clinical staff remained protected. In this narrative review, we share our experience and measures that were implemented in our clinic to ensure that the oral health needs of cancer patients were met in a timely manner and in a safe environment. Given that the pandemic is still on-going, the impact of our modified oral healthcare delivery model in cancer patients warrants continued monitoring and assessment.
- Subjects :
- oral oncology
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
dental
lcsh:Medicine
Oral health
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Pandemic
Medicine
business.industry
Transmission (medicine)
Dental Assistant
Head and neck cancer
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Cancer
COVID-19
030206 dentistry
General Medicine
medicine.disease
stomatognathic diseases
Dental clinic
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
head and neck cancer
Medical emergency
business
cancer patients
oral surgery
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20770383
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 3138
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Clinical Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7c4b82bb2a2358913e092919adc04546