Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Dental Sciences

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Diş Hekimliği Pratiğinde Koronavirüs Salgınına Karşı Alınması Gereken Önlemler
Measures to be Taken Against the Coronavirus Outbreak in Dentistry Practice
İlkay PEKERa, Umut PAMUKÇUa, Kübra TAKAa, Özlem ÜÇOKa
aGazi Üniversitesi Diş Hekimliği Fakültesi, Ağız, Diş ve Çene Radyolojisi ABD, Ankara, TÜRKİYE
Turkiye Klinikleri J Dental Sci.2021;27(2):294-306
doi: 10.5336/dentalsci.2020-75270
Article Language: TR
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ÖZET
 İlk defa 2019 yılının aralık ayında Çin'deki Vuhan şehrinde ortaya çıkan koronavirüs hastalığı (COVID-19) kısa sürede tüm dünyayı etkisi altına alarak önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunu haline geldi. COVID19, insandan insana damlacık ve temas yoluyla bulaşan, yüksek ateşe neden olan, solunum yollarını ise öksürük ve nefes darlığı semptomları ile ciddi düzeyde etkileyebilen bir hastalıktır. Diş hekimleri ve hastalarının oral kavite ve solunum yolundaki virüs ve bakteriler gibi patojenik mikroorganizmalar ile karşılaşma olasılığı çok yüksektir. Öksüren, hapşıran veya diş tedavisi gören hastalar, diş hekimi-hasta iletişimi, yüksek hızlı el aletleri veya ultrasonik aletlerin kullanılması, tükürük veya kan yoluyla aerosollerin klinik ortamına yayılmasına neden olur. Bu nedenle, COVID-19 salgını döneminde diş hekimliği alanında çalışanların hastalığın yayılmasını önlemek için gerekli korunma önlemlerini bilmesi ve uygulanması kritik bir öneme sahiptir. Bu makalede, COVID-19 salgın döneminde diş hekimlerinin bu hastalıkla ile ilgili bilmesi gereken genel bilgiler, diş hekimliği pratiğinde alınması gereken enfeksiyon kontrol önlemleri, bu dönemde karşılaşılabilecek zorluklar ve diş hekimlerine önerilerden oluşan güncel literatür bilgileri derlenerek sunuldu.

Anahtar Kelimeler: Diş hekimliği; enfeksiyon kontrolü; hastalık salgınları; koronavirüs
ABSTRACT
 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which first appeared in Wuhan city of China in December 2019, has become an important public health problem by affecting the whole world in a short period of time. COVID-19 is a disease that is transmitted from person to person through droplet and contact, causing high fever, and can seriously affect the airways with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath. Dentists and their patients' probability of encountering with pathogenic microorganisms such as viruses and bacteria in the oral cavity and respiratory tract is very high. Patients who are coughing, sneezing, or undergoing dental treatment, dentist-patient communication, the use of high-speed hand tools or ultrasonic instruments cause aerosols to spread to the clinical setting through saliva or blood. Therefore, it is critical for those working in the field of dentistry to know and apply the necessary preventive measures to prevent the spread of the disease during the COVID-19 outbreak. In this article, current literature information including general information that dentists should know about this disease during the outbreak of COVID19, infection control measures to be taken in dentistry practice, difficulties that may be encountered in this period and recommendations to dentists were presented.

Keywords: Dentistry; infection control; disease outbreaks; coronavirus
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9. CLOSING AND AGREEMENT

Hereby "Terms of Use" come into force when announced in the "SITE" by "Turkiye Klinikleri". The users are regarded to agree to hereby contract terms by using the "SITE". "Turkiye Klinikleri" may change the contract terms and the changes will be come into force by specifying the version number and the date of change on time it is published in the "SITE".

 

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Privacy Policy

We recommend you to read the terms of use below before you visit our website. In case you agree these terms, following our rules will be to your favor. Please read our Terms of Use thoroughly.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com website belongs to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. and is designed in order to inform physicians in the field of health

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot reach to user’s identity, address, service providers or other information. The users may send this information to the website through forms if they would like to. However, www.turkiyeklinikleri.com may collect your hardware and software information. The information consists of your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain name, access time, and related websites. www.turkiyeklinikleri.com cannot sell the provided user information (your name, e-mail address, home and work address, phone number) to the third parties, publish it publicly, or keep it in the website. Gathered information has a directing feature to be a source for the website’s visitor profile, reporting and promotion of the services.

www.turkiyeklinikleri.com uses the taken information:

-To enhance, improve and maintain the quality of the website

-To generate visitor’s profile and statistical data

-To determine the tendency of the visitors on using our website

-To send print publications/correspondences

-To send press releases or notifications through e-mail

-To generate a list for an event or competition

By using www.turkiyeklinikleri.com you are considered to agree that;

-Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. cannot be hold responsible for any user’s illegal and immoral behavior,

-Terms of use may change from time to time,

-It is not responsible for other websites’ contents it cannot control or the harms they may cause although it uses the connection they provided.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. may block the website to users in the following events:

-Information with wrong, incomplete, deceiving or immoral expressions is recorded to the website,

-Proclamation, advertisement, announcement, libelous expressions are used against natural person or legal identity,

-During various attacks to the website,

-Disruption of the website because of a virus.

Written, visual and audible materials of the website, including the code and the software are under protection by legal legislation.

Without the written consent of Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. the information on the website cannot be downloaded, changed, reproduced, copied, republished, posted or distributed.

All rights of the software and the design of the website belong to Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc.

Ortadoğu Advertisement Presentation Publishing Tourism Education Architecture Industry and Trade Inc. will be pleased to hear your comments about our terms of use. Please share the subjects you think may enrich our website or if there is any problem regarding our website.

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