The Management of Periodontitis Patients Should not be Postponed During the COVID-19 Era

Abstract

Recommendation for dental care during the COVID-19 pandemic was reported [1]. The authors present recommendations for (i) patient risk assessment, (ii) patient triage, and (iii) measures to prevent infection of health professionals and nosocomial transmission in dental clinics. With regard to patient triage, the authors classified dental treatments according to their emergency level. Their insistence consists of abscess drainage and tooth extraction due to acute pain as the "urgent level", extraction of teeth due to chronic pain, pain from broken ortho-appliance, and so on the "as soon as possible level", and finally, elective extraction

Management of Periodontal Emergency during COVID-19 Pandemic

“…Dental care during the pandemic should not be delayed, especially in emergency cases, dental care during the pandemic should be linked to patient risk assessment, patient triage, and infection prevention measures for clinicians or health professionals and nosocomial transmission in dental clinics (Figure 1) [20].…”