{"id":2044,"date":"2020-11-06T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T18:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:04:59","slug":"incidence-of-covid-19-virus-transmission-in-three-dental-offices-a-6-month-retrospective-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/06\/incidence-of-covid-19-virus-transmission-in-three-dental-offices-a-6-month-retrospective-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Incidence of COVID-19 Virus Transmission in Three Dental Offices: A 6-Month Retrospective Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>There was no evidence for transmission of SARS-CoV2 in dental patients undergoing procedures in New York during a period that included the peak of the pandemic. A prospective study of dental patients (n =2,810) in New York treated in three different dental offices over a 6 months period of March 15-September 15 found that there was no evidence of SARS-CoV-2 transmission to dental workers or patients. Participants were screened both before and 14-days after dental procedures and no participants reported SARS-CoV-2 infection in the 14 days following a procedure. The offices used enhanced infection control measures for patients, including screening questionnaires, temperature screening, and mandatory handwashing and provided N95 masks to staff.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Froum and Froum. (Nov 2020). Incidence of COVID-19 Virus Transmission in Three Dental Offices: A 6-Month Retrospective Study. The International Journal of Periodontics &amp; Restorative Dentistry. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11607\/prd.5455\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.11607\/prd.5455<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was no evidence for transmission of SARS-CoV2 in dental patients undergoing procedures in New York during a period that included the peak of the pandemic. A prospective study of dental patients (n =2,810) in New York treated in three different dental offices over a 6 months period of March 15-September 15 found that there&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/11\/06\/incidence-of-covid-19-virus-transmission-in-three-dental-offices-a-6-month-retrospective-study\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[54,38],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-health-care-setting","tag-transmission","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2045,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}