Background: The newly emerged pandemic has created many dilemmas in dental clinical practice all over the world. Most of the practicing dentists and dental students are at higher risk of getting infected and transmitted the disease. The study aimed to explore the knowledge and attitudes among dental interns in Saudi Arabia related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Materials and Methods: An online questionnaire survey was carried out among dental students pursuing their internship at different universities in Saudi Arabia. A combination of convenience and snowball sampling was used to identify interns from each province of the Kingdom. The questionnaire was validated and pretested, which recorded the knowledge, attitude, and concerns related to dental practice and COVID-19. Results: The knowledge related to COVID-19 and its importance in clinical dental practice was below average among dental interns, and only 22.2% gave a correct response to all questions. About 80.8% and 85% of the dental students were worried about contracting the infection during dental practice and transmitting it to family and friends, respectively. Conclusion: Dental students showed satisfactory knowledge, attitude, and practices related to COVID-19, and most of them were aware and adhering to the preventive guidelines set by the ministry of health.

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Key Clinical Message The article describes the treatment of a patient with a class III ridge relation who required a complete denture. An artificial dentition cross‐arch configuration was used to treat the patient. The dentist should relate the biomechanical component to the anatomy. Abstract Complete edentulism is not uncommon in day‐to‐day prosthodontic clinical practice. Retention and stability are critical factors in successfully treating a complete denture patient. A practitioner must always plan the treatment depending on various situations encountered in the patient's mouth. Maxillomandibular relation, which involves deviation from everyday situations, occurs with considerable frequency and is often quite challenging to the dentist in offering a suitable treatment. The importance of teeth arrangement and a stable occlusion in maintaining the stability of a denture is well‐documented. This Article highlights a case with a class III jaw relation situation, which was managed successfully by a cross‐arch arrangement of artificial teeth. A follow‐up, along with an indication, is represented.

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An unprecedented challenge to the healthcare system worldwide has resulted from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As per the estimates of year 2022 over 314 million cases and over 5.5 million deaths had been reported since the pandemic began. The respiratory system is the primary system affected by COVID-19, which is a multisystem disease. It usually starts as an upper respiratory infection that spreads to the lungs and causes interstitial pneumonia, severe respiratory failure, a systemic inflammatory response, and multi-organ dysfunction in the most extreme instances. The environment that a viral infection allows concurrent or secondary bacterial co-infections has been created by the co-evolution of viral and bacterial respiratory pathogens, increasing the morbidity and mortality of respiratory viral infections and significantly increasing the burden of disease on society. Because COVID-19 mass vaccination campaigns are still in their early phases, underlying co-infections and how they are treated could have significant impact on disease morbidity and related patient care. Growing evidence of research demonstrates that microbial co-infection raises the likelihood of human illness severity. The prevalence of co-infection ranges from 0%- 20% among COVID-19 patients. Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Streptococcus pneumoniae, and Haemophilus influenzae were the most prevalent bacterial co-infections in all COVID-19 patients along with certain other viral coinfections. Despite extensive study on viral-bacterial co-infections, there are few studies that examine how they affected the COVID-19 pandemic