Dentists in Covid19 Mode| Stephy Publishers
Journal of Dental Research and Oral Hygiene - (JDROH)| Stephy Publishers
Opinion Dear, I want to share with you my opinion and reflection on what I have experienced these approximately 11 months of pandemic on this side of the world (South America). I live in a regional capital city, Antofagasta, in northern Chile, where the first cases of SarsCov-2 began to be detected in midMarch 2020. At first, many sanitary measures taken globally were also implemented in Chile and South America, where dentists suffer quite harshly and abruptly from the arrival of COVID19. In our local case, I remember that a dentist was diagnosed with COVID19 when performing the PCR for presenting symptoms, and it turns out that the day before he had treated a number of patients no less. Faced with this situation, in the first instance a large number of colleagues spoke about the irresponsibility of the dentist, since he had come from a vacation period in Brazil and apparently he had not respected the mandatory quarantine, which is not true because until that moment he had not There were measures on the part of the government to carry out a correct follow-up or traceability of the people who were arriving in the country through the only international terminal that Chile has, if as you read it, the only one. Do you want to know the result of patient care by the dentist? Zero (0) infected patients. Do you want to know the result of the care of the mother of the dentist who works in the sale of fruits and vegetables and that she was also infected? Incalculable, 80 people to quarantine and the closure of the premises where she worked. You will understand that the panic associated with dental care seized both professionals and patients, which led to an abrupt stop of elective care, leaving only emergency care. This situation persisted for at least 6 months, where, on the one hand, a great ignorance of ourselves, the dentists themselves, was evidenced in being able to defend our way of working and, on the other hand, it was literally necessary to arm ourselves with personal protection elements (PPE) in order to be able to return to attend.
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