2021
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-286938/v1
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COVID-19 Outbreak and Dental Health Care Provision in Nigeria – A National Survey

Abstract: Background: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the world is unprecedented, posing greater threats to vulnerable healthcare systems, especially in developing countries. This study aimed to assess the knowledge of dental healthcare providers in Nigeria about the disease and evaluate their responses to the preventive measures necessitated by the disease.Methods: This was an online self-administered questionnaire-based study conducted among Dentists practicing in Nigeria. A message containing the link to the s… Show more

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“…Reference [15] similarly noted good knowledge of COVID-19 among Nigerian dentists undergoing residency training. Furthermore, this present study found a similar pattern of knowledge of most common symptoms of COVID-19 such as fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, and loss of smell among dental practitioners to that observed in a previous study involving a national survey of COVID-19 outbreak and dental health care provision in Nigeria [16].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…Reference [15] similarly noted good knowledge of COVID-19 among Nigerian dentists undergoing residency training. Furthermore, this present study found a similar pattern of knowledge of most common symptoms of COVID-19 such as fever, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, and loss of smell among dental practitioners to that observed in a previous study involving a national survey of COVID-19 outbreak and dental health care provision in Nigeria [16].…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 86%
“…Em relação a organização dos serviços, gestão do fluxo e segurança do paciente, relatou-se experiências de alterações na estrutura física e de organização dos serviços odontológicos, ampla implementação de várias medidas preventivas como a tele-odontologia, triagem clínica e o incentivo para o uso correto do EPI (Aladelusi et al, 2021;Y. Yang et al, 2020).…”
Section: Vigilância Biossegurança Gestão Do Fluxo E Segurança Dos Pac...unclassified
“…A pandemia trouxe desafios significativos para dentistas e pacientes (Mahdavi et al, 2022), devido a suspensão da rotina dos serviços odontológicos, desde março de 2020 (Patel & Wong, 2020). No ambiente clínico, o maior desafio e fator de risco de infeção foram os procedimentos geradores de aerossóis (Aladelusi et al, 2021).…”
Section: Impactos Da Covid-19 Entre Clínicos Odontológicosunclassified