The WHO Puts Periodontal Disease On Hold

Episode 3 Highlights

• Emergency Board Meeting of the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners 
• World Health Organization Statement
• Effects of COVID-19 for those with Periodontal Disease
• Kansas: Assistants scaling below the gum line
• Chicago MidWinter goes virtual for 2021

Quotes  

• “You should probably know if your State Dental Board is active or not” 
• “COVID gives providers more opportunity to have conversations about the Oral Systemic Link”
• “We can’t be afraid as an industry to say ’this is what you need to know and why’”
• “Covid has been the best excuse for the dental industry: - use it to set up great systems!
• “If you are an assistant, or dentist listening to this, you should know that https://www.danb.org is an important resource”

Links

Texas State Board decisions: 

https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/regviewer$ext.RegPage?sl=R&app=1&p_dir=&p_rloc=380950&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_reg=380950&ti=22&pt=5&ch=108&rl=7&issue=09/04/2020&z_chk=

COVID lawsuit link: https://ctmirror.org/2020/08/10/covid-sparks-lawsuits-in-ct-but-not-the-epidemic-those-seeking-lawsuit-shield-for-businesses-expect/

ADA responds to the WHO’s statement on postponing routine dental care:

https://www.ada.org/en/press-room/news-releases/2020-archives/august/american-dental-association-dentistry-is-essential-health-care