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Managing the Oral Health of Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of a Dental Clinic in a Cancer Center

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Department of Oral Oncology/Dentistry and Maxillofacial Prosthetics, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Department of Oral Diagnostic Sciences, University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
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Department of Restorative Dentistry, University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
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Department of Head and Neck/Plastic Surgery, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA
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Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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Center for Oral Oncology, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY 14263, USA
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J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(10), 3138; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103138
Received: 11 August 2020 / Revised: 21 September 2020 / Accepted: 24 September 2020 / Published: 28 September 2020
(This article belongs to the Collection Impact of COVID-19 on the Dental Community)
The practice of dentistry has been dramatically altered by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Given the close person-to-person contact involved in delivering dental care and treatment procedures that produce aerosols, dental healthcare professionals including dentists, dental assistants and dental hygienists are at high risk of exposure. As a dental clinic in a comprehensive cancer center, we have continued to safely provide medically necessary and urgent/emergent dental care to ensure that patients can adhere to their planned cancer treatment. This was accomplished through timely adaptation of clinical workflows and implementation of practice modification measures in compliance with state, national and federal guidelines to ensure that risk of transmission remained low and the health of both immunocompromised cancer patients and clinical staff remained protected. In this narrative review, we share our experience and measures that were implemented in our clinic to ensure that the oral health needs of cancer patients were met in a timely manner and in a safe environment. Given that the pandemic is still on-going, the impact of our modified oral healthcare delivery model in cancer patients warrants continued monitoring and assessment. View Full-Text
Keywords: COVID-19; oral oncology; dental; oral surgery; head and neck cancer; cancer patients COVID-19; oral oncology; dental; oral surgery; head and neck cancer; cancer patients
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Manuballa, S.; Abdelmaseh, M.; Tasgaonkar, N.; Frias, V.; Hess, M.; Crow, H.; Andreana, S.; Gupta, V.; Wooten, K.E.; Markiewicz, M.R.; Singh, A.K.; Hicks, W.L., Jr.; Seshadri, M. Managing the Oral Health of Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of a Dental Clinic in a Cancer Center. J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9, 3138. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103138

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Manuballa S, Abdelmaseh M, Tasgaonkar N, Frias V, Hess M, Crow H, Andreana S, Gupta V, Wooten KE, Markiewicz MR, Singh AK, Hicks WL Jr., Seshadri M. Managing the Oral Health of Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of a Dental Clinic in a Cancer Center. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020; 9(10):3138. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103138

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Manuballa, Sunita, Marym Abdelmaseh, Nirmala Tasgaonkar, Vladimir Frias, Michael Hess, Heidi Crow, Sebastiano Andreana, Vishal Gupta, Kimberly E. Wooten, Michael R. Markiewicz, Anurag K. Singh, Wesley L. Hicks Jr., and Mukund Seshadri. 2020. "Managing the Oral Health of Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspective of a Dental Clinic in a Cancer Center" Journal of Clinical Medicine 9, no. 10: 3138. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9103138

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