Apresentação de protocolos de atendimento odontopediátrico em tempos de pandemia de Covid-19: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic caused by the spreading of the SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) affected the health all over the world. In a lot of services, to contain the disease spreading, new treatment protocols were adopted. The professional dentist is in high risk of contamination because of the direct work in the patient’s oral cavity, the virus transmission place through the saliva and the aerosols’ generation, as well as the contact with the equipments’ surfaces, thus it is important security and protection measures. In pediatric dentistry, there are singular challenges because of the comportament management necessity of the pediatric patients, that implies an attendance that involves more people (dentist, assistant, responsables) and increases cross-infections. Also, with the addition of the individual protection equipment and a new attendance routine, there is the risk of affecting the vinculation development with the child. To minimize the damages, protocols and guidances that include previous carings in the attendance and minimally invasive procedures were elaborated, contributing to the security and management in pediatric patients. Thus, the study aims to synthesize the adopted biosecurity protocols in the pediatric dentistry practice because of the COVID-19 pandemic. An electronic search was performed in the databases PubMed, CAPES Periodicals Portal and LIVIVO with the keywords Pediatric Dentistry and Covid-19. After the reading of the titles and the abstracts, 09 articles were selected to this study, being included studies about the biosecurity guidelines in the pediatric dentistry attendance during the Covid- 19 pandemic. We excluded those articles that were related exclusively with other attendance aspects in the pediatric dentistry, such as Teledentistry, anxiety, oral health perception and others. We concluded that the professionals have to follow infection control measures and keep updated through the scientific evidences, being necessary new studies about this subject to promote constant updating.