A review on COVID-19 in dentistry

Background and Aim: Coronaviruses generally cause mild to moderate respiratory and gastrointestinal infections in humans and animals, but the new coronavirus has created one of the biggest problems for human health on Earth. Prior to December 2019, Corona virus viruses have seriously attacked human populations twice in the form of MERS and SARS diseases. Coronavirus has now caused millions of people to become infected with the new mutation, which is so much more severe than before that many health-related approaches have been affected. One of the most important approaches is the health needs of oral health and the health of dentists. Material and Methods: In order to extract of data, the researcher overviewed issues from PubMed، Medline, Scopus, Nature and Google Scholar from 2005-2020.and 61 articles were chosen, the maximum were published in 2020 parallel with virus world contamination. Result: One of the important findings in new article is know the manner of virus and hygienic protocols against virus contamination. The virus cross-contamination, screening the patients and disinfection in dental clinics and mineral supplement usage for increasing the immunity of persons and attention to health protocols are summarized and categorized from studies as well.   Conclusion: Studies have shown that new effective drugs and vaccines against new introduced viral diseases must be produced by scientist. More important, more rigid rules must be performed for traffic in crowded places. Dentists must pay more attention to personal and environmental health and hygienic protocols