The Corona Pandemic has been a severe crisis for the entire world. In this time all the hospitals and medical facilities have been undertaking only emergency procedures and have been avoiding all elective procedures.
Dentistry and dental clinics on the other hand have been completely shut down.
Therefore tooth pain remedy and management has become quite difficult .
What is the reason for for the dental clinics to be completely shut down?
As most of the dental procedures are aerosol inducing and the coronavirus spreads by means of aerosol particles, dentistry is by far the profession with most serious risk for transmission of coronavirus cases.
So as a means preventing community transmission, all dental clinics have been advised to stop all procedures. Even if the lock down is lifted dental clinics will continue to avoid all all operating procedures.
What are the treatments that will be performed in the dental clinics as of now?
Only basic consultation and non aerosol inducing procedures such as simple removal of teeth will be performed during this pandemic.
What are the treatments that will not be performed?
All aerosol inducing procedures such as tooth filling, root canal treatment, scaling ,wisdom teeth removal and other procedures which involved the use of of water spray like orthodontist procedures will also be avoided during this time of pandemic.
What to do you if there is tooth pain? What is the tooth pain remedy?
If there is tooth pain ,first contact your dentist through phone. The dentist may enquire about your symptoms and prescribe you medications through phone (telemedicine).
Moreover crystal salt it can be mixed with hot water and gargling can be done every 1 hour.
If the teeth has a decay or cavity which is the cause of the tooth pain, Colgate pain out which is a refined form of clove oil can be used. This pain out is available in small sachets. This liquid can be e dropped over the cavity and this will reduce the pain 12 large extent.
If there is food impaction ,which means food particles getting stuck between your teeth, it is better to avoid using toothpicks pins and any other sharp objects. These sharp objects may further increase the pain and Cause infection. These impacted food particles can be removed by either gargling with water or by use of interdental brushes and Dental floss.
If even after all this procedures the pain does not subside aur there is swelling please visit the dentist with all precautions and social distancing.
Will there be any changes to the cost of of dental treatment?
The dental clinics will need to have additional equipments such as hepa air purifier in the clinics and also show other accessories.
The cost of acquiring these accessories makes it very difficult for the dentist to survive. In addition to it, an aerosol generating procedure such as tooth filling or root canal treatment or scaling procedures may require the PPE kit to be used by the dentist and the the dental assistant for just one case.
The cost of a PPE kit Ranges close to 500 rupees. Therefore the cost of of even simple procedures may see a spike in the treatment cost by more than 1500 rupees in addition to the treatment cost.
This cost will come down only when there is 100% no risk of further virus spread.
Therefore, people are advised to delay all elective dental treatments.
