Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, BYL Nair Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent. 2021 Jan-Mar;39(1):101-103. doi: 10.4103/jisppd.jisppd_532_20.
COVID-19 pandemic has impacted all the aspects of life and has emerged as the biggest challenge to the health-care sector. Dental fraternity has also taken its significant impact since the transmission of disease is primarily through aerosol droplets. Management of infants with orofacial anomalies such as natal and neonatal teeth born to COVID-19-positive mothers is another challenge due to unavailability of dental facilities in the isolation wards. In such unforeseen circumstances, out-of-routine approaches such as extraoral mandibular ultrasonography were performed for the management of a congenital intraoral swelling in an infant and are being described in this case report.
COVID-19 大流行已经影响到生活的方方面面，成为医疗保健部门面临的最大挑战。由于疾病主要通过气溶胶飞沫传播，因此牙科专业也受到了重大影响。管理患有口腔颌面部先天和新生儿牙等先天畸形的婴儿是另一个挑战，因为隔离病房中没有牙科设施。在这种意料之外的情况下，我们采用了非常规方法，如口腔外下颌超声检查，对一名婴儿的先天性口腔肿胀进行了处理，本病例报告对此进行了描述。
