Publications by authors named "P A Smania"

Among healthcare workers, oral and maxillofacial surgeons are some of the most exposed to coronavirus disease (COVID-19). The aim of this retrospective study was to develop suggestions for continuing the work of oral and maxillofacial surgeons using a safe protocol for elective and urgent aerosol-generating procedures that could prevent the onset of new clusters. Based on the results obtained and a guidelines review of those Asian countries that had promptly managed the current pandemic, the following safety protocol was developed.

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Through a questionnaire filled by the children's accompaniers involved in prevention program of the first elementary classes, was emerged a direct involvement of the parents. In the field of the scholastic prevention, the teacher is the principal mediator with the families. It emerges from the answers a frasting attitude of what was performed by our sanitary service, and a direct information adopted by mass media in the prevention field.

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