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Dental News
Keeping dental staff healthy during the flu season
KRIENS, Switzerland: Dental practitioners are one of the most at-risk groups during viral pandemics or flu seasons. Luckily, regularly using the Perio plus+...
Is digital dentistry the solution to the sustainability dilemma?
I think we can agree that dentistry is not the most environmentally friendly profession. Just take into consideration the number of single-use materials ...
New report reveals impact of COVID-19 on healthcare professionals
GENEVA, Switzerland: The COVID-19 pandemic caused fatigue, frustration and emotional exhaustion among healthcare workers. This is evident in a new report ...
Lithuanian researchers develop dental equipment that destroys viruses
KAUNAS, Lithuania: The work of dental professionals was significantly affected by the COVID-19 outbreak. For this reason, researchers from Lithuania have ...
Being involved in clinical activities did not increase risk of COVID-19, study says
BOSTON, US: During the pandemic, the majority of dental professionals had to cease their dental activities in order to slow down the spread of COVID-19. The...
Study sheds light on impact of COVID-19 pandemic on dental hygienists
CHICAGO, US: Similarly to other dental professionals, dental hygienists have been put in the spotlight during the COVID-19 pandemic owing to the belief that...
New NHS Scotland guidance criticised by BDA
STIRLING, UK: Earlier this week, NHS Scotland released new guidance for the prevention and handling of potential respiratory infections in healthcare ...
New study examines extent of occupational risk of COVID-19 in UK
BIRMINGHAM, UK: To fill a research gap, researchers have recently examined whether dental professionals are, in fact, at an increased risk of becoming ...
COVID-19 misconceptions: Disease prevalence among US dentists remains low
CHICAGO, U.S.: Since the beginning of the pandemic, dentistry has been deemed unsafe as dental professionals run a high risk of SARS-CoV-2 spread through ...
Interview: “Attempting to make my own shield seemed like a productive use of time"
The pandemic has caused professional and private challenges. However, some people managed to use this downtime to stimulate their creativity and to test ...
Study reveals obstructive sleep apnoea as risk factor for COVID-19
TURKU, Finland: During the first wave of the pandemic, the number of hospitalisations for SARS-CoV-2 infections in Finland was relatively low compared with ...
Interview: Effects of COVID-19 on dentistry in Asia Pacific, Part 1
COVID-19 has had an enormous impact on dental business, but its effects have varied among countries around the world. In this interview, Dental Tribune ...
Sunshine vitamin D and COVID-19: Is there a correlation?
LEIPZIG, Germany: Vitamin D, also referred to as the sunshine vitamin, is increasingly more difficult to obtain from sun exposure. The increase in the ...
Interview: “Dental laboratories will be left in an extremely vulnerable position”
Close cooperation between dentists and dental technicians generates synergy and helps to ensure high-quality prosthetic dentistry. However, the COVID-19 ...
Let dentists keep working—lessons from the second Israeli lockdown
TEL AVIV, Israel: Dental clinics in Israel are operating as usual this week, despite a government-imposed lockdown that has been implemented to curb the ...
SARS-CoV-2 as invisible threat: Mitigating aerosols in dental clinics
CHICAGO, U.S.: In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, dentists have been provided with strict infection prevention and control guidelines. These include ...
Dentists in Scotland voice concerns over expired personal protective equipment
LONDON, UK: Dentists in Scotland have recently voiced their concerns over receiving stocks of free expired personal protective equipment (PPE). Since the ...
Interview: Biosecurity in the dental office
As a pioneer and market leader in sterilization, Austria-based company W&H is renowned for developing high-quality sterilization devices for the dental ...
Researchers develop saliva-based SARS-CoV-2 test and examine COVID-19 prevalence among dentists
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, Canada: Researchers from the University of Saskatchewan (USask) in Saskatoon are currently working on two large projects that have ...
Dentists across Europe face business challenges in times of COVID-19
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Dentists all over Europe are doing their part to limit the spread of COVID-19 while staying up to date with national and local ...
OPTIM disinfectants inactivate viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2
TORONTO, Canada: The novel coronavirus first infected people in China, but is spreading to other countries in Asia as well as to Europe, the Middle East and...