Dental Practice During SARS-CoV2 Pandemic

Nada Sanhouri, M.^1* & Elhadi Mohieldin Awooda²

¹Associate Professor, Department of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Khartoum, Sudan University for Sciences and Technology, Sudan
²Associate Professor, Consultant of Restorative Dentistry, Private Sector, Sudan

Dr. Nada Sanhouri, M., Associate Professor, Department of Oral Rehabilitation, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Khartoum, Sudan University for Sciences and Technology, Sudan.

Keywords: SARS-CoV2; Dental Care; Oral Health

Abstract

SARS-CoV2 prevalently known as the COVID-19 virus, Coronavirus, [1,2] originated in December 2019 in Wuhan, China [3] and rapidly continued spreading all over the world; it was declared on 11 January 2020 by the WHO as a global pandemic [4]. Since 31^st of December 2019 and according to the update of 8^th July 2020, globally, there have been 11,500,302 confirmed cases of SARS-CoV2, including 535,759 deaths [5].
The disease is caused by the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), which belongs to the species of SARS-CoV [6]. It appears to be less lethal and highly transmissible than its predecessor SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV [1,2].

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