Background: Due to its high rate of spread and unpredictable course, the COVID-19 virus has limited dentistry to providing only urgent treatment through the pandemic of 2020. With time, the burden of untreated dental disease will slowly rise, but too early a return to elective treatment will contribute to the spread of coronavirus and under-utilize much needed PPE, causing undue morbidity and m ...  View Abstract

There is a new public health crisis threatening the world with the emergence and spread of 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV). Due to the specialty of oral healthcare settings, the risk of cross infection is severe among patients and oral healthcare practitioners as they work in close proximity to their patients employing droplet and aerosol generating procedures. The transmission modes of SARS ...  View Abstract

The recent coronavirus outbreak in China has become a global public health emergency. It is tragic, and partly a result of some of the recent scientific scandals, that the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak has happened in China. Unquestionably, it is a failure of research ethics and the integrity of publication. Many high-ranking officers and expert elites are now trying to shirk responsibility. If top officers ...  View Abstract