Abstract
COVID-19, the most recent and globally impactful zoonotic viral pandemic in the last 20 years, has now entered its third year. As the global dental profession returns to providing as full a range of services as possible, in addition to embedding the new infection-control processes that were developed for this pandemic, it should also take full advantage of digital conventional radiology (intraoral, extraoral, and panoramic radiography) and cone-beam computed tomography. Regardless of vaccinations, new or yet-to-manifest variants, and testing, some dentists may be working in communities where the asymptomatic but potentially infectious patient poses a real risk. This needs to be met with not only the whole COVID-19 panoply the dentist is already too familiar with but also the need to minimise aerosol generation production by dental radiography. A flowchart and a table that compares the attributes of the above modalities are included.
Keywords: COVID-19; Cone-beam computed tomography; Radiography; Radiology.
【저자키워드】 COVID-19, Radiography, cone-beam computed tomography, Radiology., 【초록키워드】 pandemic, risk, variants, Aerosol generation, Computed tomography, Asymptomatic, radiology, zoonotic, Radiography, Patient, Community, Vaccinations, new infection, dentist, flowchart, table, attributes, attribute, Panoramic radiography, addition, extraoral,