Universal Precautions have been used in Dentistry since AIDS / HIV hit the scene over three decades ago. Consider that even today, hospitals cause 1.7 million "nosocomial" (hospital-acquired) infections PER YEAR in the U.S. Of those 1.7 million infections, 90,000 - 100,000 of them are FATAL.
Dentistry is safe for dentists and patients.
Again... Dentistry has a PERFECT record. Many in the media have claimed that dental offices are "high risk." They are conflating the facts. Dentists are OCCUPATIONALLY at high risk due to high EXPOSURE to infectious germs. That's nothing new. We are EXPOSED to a lot of germs, because of the nature of our work. HOWEVER, the risks are very effectively mitigated by Universal Precautions. We do billions of dental procedures every year in the U.S., and there are virtually no dentists getting sick. Universal Precautions WORK.
Universal precautions also work to protect our patients. Again, we have a PERFECT record. Dental patients don't get sick by visiting the dentist. Hospitals? Not so much!
MIT researchers say the dentist is safe!
Today, I came across an article about an MIT study regarding the safest and riskiest places you can be during the COVID "crisis." Dental offices were in the top three safest places!
Click here to read the article: MIT researchers say these are the unsafe businesses to avoid during COVID-19, and these are okay.
Consider that the government's recommendations - to close dental offices and keep liquor stores open contradicts what the MIT brainiacs found.
I made this meme summing up the article.
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PS: Here's a video I made a short time ago about what we do (and have always done) to prevent the transmission of germs in our office:
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