TY - JOUR AU - Li, Li AU - Zeng, Mianyan AU - Chen, Xiao AU - Cai, Shuman AU - Xu, Cuixia AU - Xia, Wei AU - Jiang, Lijun AU - Zou, Xiaoyan AU - Chen, Pei AU - Rong, Mingdeng PY - 2021 M3 - Original Research TI - Optimizing Safe Dental Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recommendations Based on a Guide Developed for Dental Practices in China JO - Frontiers in Medicine UR - https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.619357 VL - 8 SN - 2296-858X N2 - The current global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak is still exerting severe global implications, and its development in various regions is complex and variable. The high risk of cross-infection poses a great challenge to the dental practice environment; it is therefore urgent to develop a set of pandemic prevention measures to ensure dental practice safety during the COVID-19 outbreak. Therefore, we combined the epidemiological characteristics of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), public emergency measures for COVID-19, characteristics of dental practice, and relevant literature reports to develop a set of dynamic practice measures for dental practices in high-, medium-, and low-risk areas affected by COVID-19. This will help dental practices to achieve standard prevention and ensure their safe and smooth operation during the pandemic. It is hoped that these measures will provide a reference basis for dental hospitals and dental clinics in their care and pandemic prevention work. ER -