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- King's College Hospital has created new standard operating procedures for managing pediatric dental emergencies during the COVID-19 pandemic based on updated guidelines.
- The paper discusses strategies for safely handling dental emergencies while minimizing virus transmission and includes an audit of recent patient cases.
- It was found that 76% of pediatric patients met criteria for urgent treatment, mainly presenting with irreversible pulpitis, indicating the common challenges dentists may face in urgent care settings.
Article Abstract
With the use of newly issued guidelines, King's College Hospital has developed new standard operating procedures specifically for the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the unprecedented nature of the current global pandemic, this paper highlights how paediatric dental emergencies can be managed safely and efficiently, as well as new measures which can help reduce transmission of the virus. Furthermore, an audit of the current paediatric dental emergencies attending the hospital is presented. Seventy-six percent of patients attending met the agreed local criteria for urgent treatment, with the most common presentation being irreversible pulpitis. This highlights the types of cases that practitioners enrolled in urgent dental care centres (UDCs) can expect to encounter and how to effectively manage this challenging group of patients.
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