Daily removal of dental plaque is considered important for oral health maintenance and prevention of periodontal diseases and dental caries.People routinely use toothbrushes at home to remove...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 17 June 2020
How to put and remove Personal Protective Equipment to avoid Coronavirus infection
Authors: S. Chirico, L. Breschi
After months of emergency caused by the Coronavirus epidemic, we find ourselves living a completely different reality from what we were used to and having to ...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 10 June 2020
Which masks do we have to use to prevent the risk of Coronavirus infection?
In these times, during Coronavirus emergency, there is a lot of talk about masks and what would be the safest for dentists. First of all, between surgical...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 20 May 2020
Spanish guideline for avoiding COVID-19 transmission in dental practices
Author: Lorena Origo
In the current situation of COVID-19 emergency, all nations support the need to limit dental clinical activity exclusively to emergency care. In parallel, it is necessary to prepare for the following...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 05 May 2020
Covid-19 emergency: American Dental Association guidance for reducing risk of Covid-19 transmission
Authors: S. Chirico, L. Breschi
The resumption of dental activity in United States is getting closer and the American Dental Association (ADA) has drawn up a guide to reduce the risk of...
Eating disorders (ED), such as Anorexia or Bulimia, are serious psycho-social illnesses that affect adults and adolescents mainly. Individuals affected by...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 22 April 2020
Authors: Graziani F, Izzetti R, Gabriele M, Nisi M
Oral care professionals are undoubtedly on the front line during this pandemic. Dentists are among the most exposed categories to the risk of SARS-CoV-2...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 22 April 2020
Authors: L. Breschi, S. Chirico
A tough battle is being fought all over the world against Covid-19 emergency. The numbers are really worrying, because of the high contagion power of the virus....
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 17 April 2020
COVID-19 and dentistry, an overview from Doctor Roberto Burioni.
Translation: Prof. Luca Pani
The Coronavirus emergency, how the virus is changing, and how it will change the dental profession, were analyzed and explained by one of the leading experts in the field: the virologist Doctor...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 07 April 2020
Back to clinical activity: how to improve the air and the work environment.
Author: M. Montevecchi
Phase 2 is approaching. Yes, finally the collective commitment of these days seems to dare on the results and the possibility of a progressive return to the operativity of the past. But will it...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 02 April 2020
On March 31, 2020, the American Dental Association (ADA) published guidelines for dental practices on its website (https://www.ada.org/en). Dentists, in fact, must keep their offices closed to...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 31 March 2020
Covid-19: recommendations to be adopted in dental practices and university dental schools
Authors: S. Chirico, L. Breschi
In these days of emergency, in which the epidemic of Coronavirus disease has dramatically affected not only Italy (the country in which we live), but the whole world, Prof. Breschi and I have...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 24 March 2020
COVID-19: Dental Practitioners and Dental Student Guidelines
Co-author: L. Breschi
The epidemic of coronavirus disease 2019 ( COVID-19) has become a major public health challenge for the entire planet. The World Health Organization have therefore made the assessment that...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 10 March 2020
Coronavirus disease: how to behave and reduce the transmission in dental practice
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 26 February 2020
Here are the indications published on the American Dental Association (ADA) website for helping prevent the transmission of coronavirus disease:Patients with an acute respiratory illness may seek...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 25 February 2020
Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 12 February 2020
Peri-implant mucositis: which toothbrush is better to choose?
Peri-implant mucositis is an inflammation of the mucosa around dental implant. Clinically, it is characterized by mucosal bleeding on peri-implant ...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 15 January 2020
Prevention of plaque and gingivitis: manual or powered brushing?
It is widely known that the presence of high levels of plaque cause gingivitis. Powered toothbrushes are now generally regarded to be more efficacious than...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 04 December 2019
Dentin hypersensitivity (DH) is one of the most common problem that affected patients.Even if today is still unclear the etiology, Davari et al in their study try to explain the etiology and also the...
Oral Hygiene & Prevention 06 November 2019
Geriatric Dentistry: Chlorhexidine against Oral Colonization
Poor oral hygiene has been implicated in the development of aspiration pneumonia in frail patients. In fact inadequate oral care can cause colonisation of...
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