Keywords
COVID-19
dental education
dental schools
dentistry
educational technology
normativity
pandemic
public health
teaching strategies
telemedicine
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Background: The current COVID-19 pandemic has become a major health challenge and a public health emergency, so it is important to strengthen preventive measures to control its spread. The transmissibility and routes that characterize this virus make it very high risk during dental procedures. For this reason, different organizations and institutions of dental education worldwide have been forced to implement new teaching modalities for dental students to provide a high academic and safe education in clinical practice. Purpose: To examine and analyze different existing publications in relation to dental education, as well as its challenges and alternatives around the COVID-19 disease. Methods: An integrative review of literature on dental education in times of pandemic was carried out. Results: In all continents, countries agree that three key aspects in terms of education must be reinforced are new educational tools, telemedicine, and biosecurity. Conclusion: It is decisive and crucial that dental students and professionals acquire knowledge in matters of health regulations, biosafety, and general aspects of epidemiology, through new forms of teaching, in order to be better prepared to provide the best possible dental care during and after this pandemic.
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