![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention, dentists were reported to be among the highest professional risk groups of being infected and a possible vector of the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus ( 5).Īcademic dental schools are considered as competitive and demanding learning communities. On the 15 March 2020, the majority of countries all over the world started to impose a lockdown of their population and dental practices were asked to close temporarily. Human-to-human contact via droplets and aerosol has been linked to the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus ( 4). The overall number of confirmed cases and mortalities are 78,194,105 and 1,754,369, respectively, in 216 countries as of Decem( 3). COVID-19 flare-up spread rapidly not only in China, but also worldwide, therefore, on 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) affirmed the SARS-CoV-2 virus, more commonly known as COVID-19 as a pandemic ( 2). The aim of this mini-review is to present these challenges and how academic dental institutions have implemented strategies to overcome them.ĭecember 2019, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was firstly spotted in Wuhan, China, as pneumonia of unknown origin ( 1). Some dental schools have taken the leadership and documented their modifications during this pandemic however, there is a serious need for further investigation and wide range screening of the situation in the dental schools during the COVID-19 crisis. Dental students unlike other medical students are considered to be at the highest risk due to the nature of their clinical training that includes working in the oral cavity of patients using aerosol-generating equipment. Although medical institutions immediately started to adapt to the unexpected COVID-19 crisis, dental and oral health educational services are profoundly impaired due to the dental team's propinquity to the patient and the aerosols generated during routine dental therapeutic procedures. This crisis appears to be a tipping point that produced confusion in dental teaching especially clinical sciences. ![]() Both pre-clinical and clinical dental education have experienced challenges ranging from fully online educational content to limited dental training for senior dental students. Moving within the second wave of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, dental education delivery has been profoundly affected by this crisis, so has the structure, evaluation, and future of dental education. 3Department of Pediatric Dentistry and Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt.2Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, October 6 University, Giza, Egypt.1Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Oral and Dental Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt. ![]()
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