Biosafety in Dental Practices Versus COVID-19 Outbreak

• Main Authors: Ingrid Garcia Santos (Author), Vívian Gonçalves Carvalho Souza (Author), Guilherme Thomaz Verly da Silva (Author), Aneliese Holetz de Toledo Lourenço (Author), Laísa Araujo Cortines Laxe (Author), Ana Carolina Morais Apolônio (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Association of Support to Oral Health Research (APESB), 2021-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary

Objective: To evaluate the dentists' knowledge about biosafety considering the SARS-CoV-2 and the risks of increasing the COVID-19 outbreak by dental practices during the pandemic in Brazil. Material and Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed by internet-based snowball sampling technique. A questionnaire with questions about different content was applied, and then analyzed the following two parameters: participants' Brazilian region and professional's specialty. Results: A total of 413 e-questionnaires from all Brazilian regions were considered valid. There were no significant differences among biosafety measures adopted by participants from different Brazilian regions (p≥0.05), except for those from North region, which have applied less previous oral antisepsis, temperature screening, and specific anamnesis tracking COVID-19 symptoms (p<0.05). The unique use of N95 mask was positively associated with North region (p<0.05). Expert participants of Groups 2 (oral surgery and correlate areas) and 4 (orthodontics, oral radiology and facial jaw orthopedics) were more updated than other ones (p<0.05). Conclusion: The biosafety protocols applied by participants were not adequate for the epidemiologic status of COVID-19 in each region of Brazil, from 13th May to 17th June 2020. Specialties linked to microbiology area or structured social networks have better applied preventive measures for COVID-19.

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