Impact of COVID-19 on dental education- a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A new corona virus called COVID-19 and its epidemic has affected health care systems in many ways. There have also been significant changes in dental education. The present study summarizes the findings about dental education resulting from a scoping review of COVID-19 and dentistry.

Methods

First, a comprehensive search of five databases (Google Scholar, Medline through PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane Central) was conducted with the keywords: COVID-19 and its equivalent terms, dentistry, education, oral, students, curriculum, and academics. Articles related to oral health and COVID-19 were searched. Then articles on the subject of dental education were screened and reviewed.

Results

Of the 1389 articles investigating COVID-19 and dentistry, 135 articl

SUBMITTER: Farrokhi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8604706 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature