Evidence-based Recommendations on Periodontal Practice and the Management of Periodontal Patients During and After the COVID-19 Era: Challenging Infectious Diseases Spread by Airborne Transmission

Background: Periodontal care, which was completely suspended during the peak of SARS-Cov-2 pandemic and delayed recurrently discontinued succeeding waves, must be safely provided in COVID-19 era. Objectives: The study aimed to provide recommendations on periodontal practice, optimizing safety, ergonomics, economic resources, management patients, ensuring continuity, timing, effectiveness care Methods: Reported protocols for dental practice context current evidence periodontitis treatment prevention were reviewed. Results: Evidence-based contamination control ergonomic improvements patients challenging airborne infectious diseases have been provided. Conclusion: Due economic, ergonomic, ethical concerns raised by limited due pandemic, awareness other emerging transmitted infections, should integrate measures minimizing cross-infections time-space resources. era comprise less complex treatments more comprehensive definitive approaches, reducing emergencies, session length number, and, concurrently, extending recall maintenance intervals. Moreover, it implement strategies through teledentistry tools apps, improving self-care, also self-reporting risk assessment tools, performing both “population-based” “high-risk” surveillance periodontitis. Finally, enhance inter-professional collaboration, telehealth networks, especially targeting subjects at high-risk systemic disorders, each two variously linked onset worsening.